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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] free diskspace?
Message-ID: <CJIxvH.21F@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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Date: Wed, 12 Jan 1994 16:02:04 GMT
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In article <2gvhmt$bv5@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>Agreed.  If you can send me the changes required to make 5% the default
>size I'll make sure it gets brought up with the FreeBSD developers.

I wasn't actually asking you to change the default, just advising that
it would be safe for a user to change it.  But if you want to change
it (which sounds reasonable to me) I guess that all you need to change
is the definition of MINFREE from 10 to 5 in newfs.c.  There are
probably lots of minor consequential changes - for example, both newfs
and tunefs have 10 hard-wired in as the value below which they believe
you should optimise for space rather than time.  (Also, ufs_alloc
never switches to time optimisation if minfree is less than 5.)

-- Richard
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Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University                 R.Tobin@ed.ac.uk

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