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Article #12234Re: newfs: decreasing bytes/inode
From: Robert Elz
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 20:36
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1989 20:36
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Don't decrease the block size (on a sun at least), paging requires that blocks be at least as big as pages (8k on sun 3's and up). However there's nothing at all that says that any of the other parameters in disktab *must* relate in any way at all to the drive you're using. You will (may) get better performance if they do, but that's all the difference they make. If the difference is between 5% or 10% performance on must huge filesystems (/usr/spool/news and user type filesystems rather than /tmp or /usr) and not having enough inodes to be able to put all the files that need to be there in the filesystem, I know which I'm going to choose... Change the number of sectors, the number of tracks, the number of cylinders so they end end up multiplying to the right number of blocks, or close to it, and until you can get enough inodes to survive. If you can, halve the number of tracks or sectors, and double the number of cylinders, that will give minimum performance loss, but anything will do. kre
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: munnari!cs.mu.oz.au!kre@uunet.uu.net (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: newfs: decreasing bytes/inode Keywords: SunOS Message-ID: <1342@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> Date: 25 Apr 89 20:36:14 GMT References: <8902240330.AA13943@csvax.caltech.edu> <558@igor.Rational.COM> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 22 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 6 Apr 89 19:29:39 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 248, message 3 of 13