Re: 2.3.x wish list?

Khimenko Victor (khim@sch57.msk.ru)
Mon, 24 May 1999 19:40:15 +0400 (MSD)


In <199905211106.NAA31578@gate.mesa.nl> Marcel J.E. Mol (marcel@mesa.nl) wrote:
> Getting back the the mke2fs -m option. Wouldn't it be better to change the
> semantics of this option to specify the amount of blocks, MB or
> something instead of percentages? 1% of an 8GB filesystem is still 80 MB.
> I see no direct reason for a reserved area so big...

You REALLY NEED 80Mb (or may be even more) reserved. Otherwise ext2fs will be
unable to cope effectively with fragmentation... After all 1% is just 1%
(even if it's 80Mb :-)

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