-Marcel
Lately, Theodore Y. Ts'o announced:
>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 08:59:08 +0200 (MEST)
> From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
>
> I agree with you that most often the number of files increases more
> slowly than the size of the filesystem, but there are cases where
> this isn't true.
>
> News is the one example that everybody knows.
>
> True, but for a good news server you generally have to tune a lot of
> things anyway. And any decent news server maintainer should be able to
> tune a filesystem appropriately.
>
> I think you can print a warning if your "new guidelines" aren't
> followed, but I don't think you should force your new guidlines on
> everybody. (well, we're talking about changing the default. But nobody
> ever changes the default....)
>
> The problem is that a default has to be best for most people. Linus
> pointed out to me, probably correctly, that one of the reasons for our
> lousy performance on the Mindcraft benchmark was probably related to bad
> defaults for the filesystem. And there are going to be far more file
> servers and web servers than news servers used by users, so it makes
> sense to make the defaults be optimized for the more commoon usage
> scenarios.
>
> - Ted
>
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