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Xref: sserve comp.unix.internals:8132 comp.unix.bsd:15904 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: Fast File System: optimizing arguments to newfs Date: 13 Jan 1995 23:38:04 +0100 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3f6vcc$gi7@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <MARC.95Jan13161859@dun-dun-noodles.cam.ov.com> <3f6udo$dhu@bosnia.pop.psu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes: >The defaults for newfs are generally geared for (2), so no need >to change things. If you really want to maximize space for 2GB disks, >having "-m 5" will probably not mean much loss of performance. Sun defaults newfs to -i 2048. We use -i 8192 and never run out of inodes on all but news disks for which we use the default 2048 (with a block/fragment size of 4096/512) Casper