On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 01:17:26PM -0800, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
> Otto Moerbeek [[email protected]] wrote:
> >
> > There are several way to speedup fsck which are available now:
> >
> > - Use larger block and fragment sizes when doing a newfs, of course
> > this requires rebuilding the file system
>
> Is there any sort of rule-of-thumb for this now that 1TB drives are "cheap"
> and 2 and 3TB drives are available? In arrays, no less.
I'd say the bigger the better, (max for both is 64k), unless you
expect to store a lot of small files. In that case having large blocks
and fragments will spoil a lot of disk space and your number of inodes
might be too small.
-Otto
