On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:17:26PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > Otto Moerbeek [o...@drijf.net] wrote: > > > > There are several way to speedup fsck which are available now: > > > > - Use larger block and fragment sizes when doing a newfs, of course > > this requires rebuilding the file system > > Is there any sort of rule-of-thumb for this now that 1TB drives are "cheap" > and 2 and 3TB drives are available? In arrays, no less.
I'd say the bigger the better, (max for both is 64k), unless you expect to store a lot of small files. In that case having large blocks and fragments will spoil a lot of disk space and your number of inodes might be too small. -Otto