Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 1999 18:50:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? |
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 16:26:39 +0100 (BST) From: Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Even without that, the performance of fsck (and mount, come to that) is massively improved by doing a mke2fs with 4k blocks instead of 1k. Here are some figures I sent to linux-raid a few months ago:
Yes. Disk has gotten so large and so cheap these days that the concern about the last-block overhead is pretty much not an issues these days. (Heck, even my new laptop has 6 gigs on it. :-)
One of the things which I'm planning on doing is changing mke2fs's defaults based on the size of the filesystem it's making. If it's making a large filesystem (where large is probably bigger than, say, 200-300 megs), I'll change it to use 4k block sizes and also reduce the number of inodes created (since with a large filesystem, you generally don't need quite so many inodes).
- Ted
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