comments on newfs raw disk ? Safe ? (7 terabyte array)

[Oliver Fromme]

I'm sorry I made a small mistake ...

Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > Arone Silimantia wrote:
 > > Ok, I will look into this.  My data population uses a little less
 > > than 5 million inodes per TB, so this may be workable to tune.  So I
 > > see the default is '4' - so I could run newfs with:
 > 
 > The default is 4096 (one inode per 4 KB).

The default is 4 * fragsize, and the default fragsize is
2 KB, so the default bytes-per-inode ratio is 8 KB, not 4.

(Historically the default UFS fragsize was 1 KB with a
blocksize of 8 KB, so the default ratio was indeed 4 KB
per inode.  But that was changed quite some years ago.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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