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Article #440Re: filesystems and "free space"
From: Kenneth Herron
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:31
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 15:31
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sam@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (B. Samuel Blanchard) writes:
>>work better and faster--how and why is this? What happens when you
>>cut this down to about 5% or 2% or nothing at all?
>Quick snip: Motorola documentations states that 10% free may be excessive
>in very large file systems.
>I can probably find a reasonable place for the
>next block based on having 5% (99896 blocks) instead of 10% (199793) on my
>preformatted 1gig disk.
Sorry, no hard figures here, but we ran our news partition (350 megs or
so at the time) with 0% held back for quite a while. Fragmentation
never became a problem, though of course we never allowed it to
completely fill for any length of time.
--
Kenneth Herron kherron@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky +1 606 257 2975
Department of Mathematics I just thought of a neat disproof of
Fermat's last theorem, but .signatures can only be four lines.
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