On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Kent Nilsen wrote:
> > With all those tiny files and a huge amount of disk space, be aware that
> > the latest version of mke2fs seems to "decide on a block size" based on
> > partition size rather than default to 1kb blocks. I noticed this when Red
> > Hat 6.1 gave me a 2.5gb /var partition with 4kb blocks.
>
> Is that only during setup, or even if I say mke2fs -b 4096 -m 5 -i 8192 -R
> stride=128 manually?
It's just during setup and whenever you don't specify a block size. It's
just that the default behaviour has changed from 1kb to "it depends on the
partition size".
> What should I set the -b size to anyways with all these small files? I believe I
> can save a lot of space by reducing it to 1024 or less, but how will that impact
> performance? Should I adjust my stride= or i= size to match such a change?
> Should I change it anyways? :)
I suppose it depends on which you're more interested in...performance or
squezing as much space as you can out of the drive. Drives are getting
bigger/cheaper, so maybe 1kb on a big partition doesn't make sense anymore
except in special circumstances.
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