On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:31:06AM -0500, nixlists wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:28:28PM -0500, nixlists wrote: > > > >> Hi. > >> > >> What are the recommended newfs tweaks for an FS that will store mostly > >> large or very large files? Are defaults sufficient for optimum > >> performance, or are they mostly a general case for typical OS small > >> program/text files? Also my guess tweaking with tunefs is useless, > >> since it's a very old tool? I tried tunefs with larger values than > >> default, but that makes the kernel either freeze or panic :D > >> > >> Thanks. > > > > It will work with defaults, but you can use -f and -b to increase > > fragment and block sizes to a max of 65536. That will save space on > > metadata and make fsck_ffs faster and use less memory. > > No other performance benefits than fsck?
You might save a tiny bit when creating or deleting files and dirs. But other than that and fsck_ffs, no. -Otto