Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 May 1999 22:05:12 +0200 | From | Pauline Middelink <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? |
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On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 08:59:08AM +0200, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > > 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). > > Theodore, > > I agree with you that most often the number of files increases more > slowly than the size of the filesystem, but there are cases where > this isn't true. > > News is the one example that everybody knows. > > If you are logging data to a disk, and have decided (maybe 10 years > ago) to put every measurement in a separate file, you'll get lots of > files, now that you can afford that 9G disk. > > It is often very "unacceptable" to run out of inodes: you get "disk > full" errors, but df just reports lots of free space. > > I think you can print a warning if your "new guidelines" aren't > followed, but I don't think you should force your new guidlines on > everybody. (well, we're talking about changing the default. But nobody > ever changes the default....) > Roger,
I think the news-master which takes the settings from mke2fs for granted is not a very good news-master and deserves a disk-full error?
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