On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:28:28PM -0500, 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.
It will work with defaults, but you can use -f and -b to increase
fragment and block sizes to a max of 65536. That will save space on
metadata and make fsck_ffs faster and use less memory.
-Otto
