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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!hpg30a.csc.cuhk.hk!news.hk.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cs.ubc.ca!gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca!not-for-mail From: h5h1@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Markus Meister) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 512 or 1024K blocks? Date: 29 Aug 1994 15:56:29 -0700 Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 12 Message-ID: <33tp2tINN2j6@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca I may find myself installing FreeBSD again (to a different disk) and I remember the question whether your want a 512 or 1024K block file system, and it said that the 1024 kind takes more disk space but offfers more performance. Could someone either point me to a FAQ where this is mentioned, or post a note saying how much more disk space (typically) is used up and what kind of performance increase one could reasonably expect with the 1024k filesystem (I may well be not the only one wondering about that). I just want some very approximate figures.. I'd be gratefule for such insight. - Markus (with yet another KlulessQuestion(tm))