Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-31 Thread b. f.
On 7/26/09, Maxim Khitrov mkhit...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and

Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-26 Thread b. f.
The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and many large ones ( 500 MB). A similar, in terms of content, 2TB ntfs file system on another server has an average file size

Re: UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-26 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, b. f.bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: The file system in question will not have a common file size (which is what, as I understand, bytes per inode should be tuned for). There will be many small files ( 10 KB) and many large ones ( 500 MB). A similar, in terms of

UFS2 tuning for heterogeneous 4TB file system

2009-07-25 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hi all, I've spent a few hours now reading on how to set newfs parameters for various environments (many small files, many large files, etc.). I must say that I still don't have a clear picture of the relationships between cylinders, blocks, fragments, and inodes. That's making things difficult