On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:48:44PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > On 02/23/16 14:42, John Long wrote: > > Is there any rule of thumb as to how full an ffs filesystem can be without > > impacting performance or integrity issues? > > The people who wrote the code set the limit at 95%...so if you are > looking for a "Rule of Thumb"...that's it, provided by the People Who > Know Best. > > Most of us have managed to fill a partition completely with no harm to > the system (no promises on the file!). But performance isn't our > concern at that point. File integrity isn't an issue until you try to > write when there is no space. > > But really, if you are dancing over the 95% point and are happy about > it, you have entered Special Case Land, rules of thumb don't apply and > you are responsible for your own situation.
Thanks, this is good info. I need to get move some files around then. These little Lemote boxes are such nifty ftp servers I tend to keep piling things up on them. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary / \ http://www.mutt.org attachments / \ Code Blue or Go Home! Encrypted email preferred PGP Key 2048R/DA65BC04
