Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.3.x wish list? | Date | Wed, 26 May 1999 09:44:48 +0100 (BST) | From | Malcolm Beattie <> |
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Theodore Y. Ts'o writes: > It depends on what how big the files you are writing. It's not > necessary for the free space to be contiguous; just large enough so that > files written to the disk can still be contiguous. For example, for an > 5% of 8 gig is 40 megs. If most of the files you write are smaller than > 1 meg, it's likely that the files can be stored contiguously, even if > the filesystem only has 5-10% free space on it.
5% of 8 gig is 400 megs, not 40 megs. Was 40 a typo or is your argument meant to imply that 0.5% free space is enough?
--Malcolm
-- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services
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