On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 08:39:26PM +0100, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 02:21:26PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > OpenBSD by default use UFS1 for partitions smaller than 1TB. > > > > FreeBSD use always UFS2. UFS2 uses double the amount of space for inodes. > > basic operation seems the same. > > > > Does it make sense to use UFS1 for small filesystem (on SSD) that would > > have few millions of files. It will take less space for inodes, but how > > about performance? > > UFS2 became necessary when disk got bigger and sizes and block pointers > in metadata on UFS1 became too small to fully utilize the larger disks.
There is also the possible concern of Extended Attributes. If you use them, you might be a lot more happy with UFS2. Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
