Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? | Date | Fri, 21 May 1999 13:06:12 +0200 (MET DST) | From | (Marcel J.E. Mol) |
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Getting back the the mke2fs -m option. Wouldn't it be better to change the semantics of this option to specify the amount of blocks, MB or something instead of percentages? 1% of an 8GB filesystem is still 80 MB. I see no direct reason for a reserved area so big...
-Marcel
Lately, Theodore Y. Ts'o announced: > > Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:59:08 +0200 (MEST) > From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff) > > 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. > > True, but for a good news server you generally have to tune a lot of > things anyway. And any decent news server maintainer should be able to > tune a filesystem appropriately. > > 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....) > > The problem is that a default has to be best for most people. Linus > pointed out to me, probably correctly, that one of the reasons for our > lousy performance on the Mindcraft benchmark was probably related to bad > defaults for the filesystem. And there are going to be far more file > servers and web servers than news servers used by users, so it makes > sense to make the defaults be optimized for the more commoon usage > scenarios. > > - Ted >
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