Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 May 1999 19:23:59 +0200 | From | "Marcel J.E. Mol" <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? |
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On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:50:45PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > 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).
And maybe reserved_blocks_percentage?
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