Re: 2.3.x wish list?

Stefan Monnier (monnier+lists/linux/kernel/news/@tequila.cs.yale.edu)
15 May 1999 15:55:08 -0400


>>>>> "Malcolm" == Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> writes:
> Even without that, the performance of fsck (and mount, come to that) is
> massively improved by doing a mke2fs with 4k blocks instead of 1k.

How does the fsck time evolve with block size exactly ?
And how about the bytes-per-inode (typically set to 4096, but usually
safe to push to 8192 or even higher for filesystems with big files
(i.e. not MH and not old newsservers)) ?

Stefan

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