On Monday 04 January 2010 22:28:28 nixlists wrote: > Hi. > > What are the recommended newfs tweaks for an FS that will store mostly > large or very large files? Are defaults sufficient for optimum > performance, or are they mostly a general case for typical OS small > program/text files? Also my guess tweaking with tunefs is useless, > since it's a very old tool? I tried tunefs with larger values than > default, but that makes the kernel either freeze or panic :D > > Thanks.
I don't know what your idea of large files are, but I've been using 750G and up to 900G partitions with files ranging in size from 3G to 140G, without trouble. Next will come some >300G files to chop up, but I see no reason why I won't be able to do that. The only reason I can think of to twist knobs are for tons of tiny files, where you might run out of inodes, but I still haven't encountered that yet in my (mis)adventures. --STeve Andre'
