Signed-off-by: Benjamin Peterson <b...@benjamin.pe> --- Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc index d53d9e26..62f5a5be 100644 --- a/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc +++ b/Documentation/mkfs.btrfs.asciidoc @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ default value is 16KiB (16384) or the page size, whichever is bigger. Must be a multiple of the sectorsize and a power of 2, but not larger than 64KiB (65536). Leafsize always equals nodesize and the options are aliases. + -Smaller node size increases fragmentation but lead to higher b-trees which in +Smaller node size increases fragmentation but leads to higher b-trees which in turn leads to lower locking contention. Higher node sizes give better packing and less fragmentation at the cost of more expensive memory operations while updating the metadata blocks. -- 2.14.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
