newfs parameters for a 500 GB volume ?

[Jan Grant]

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:

> Thank you for your reply. I have reread the manpage and would go for:
> - blocksize   => 64 kB
> - fragsize        => 64/8 => 8 kB
> - bytes/inode   => 16 kB
>
> Are these values reasonable or should i use higher values (because the
> disk is so large?)

I'd turn bytes per inode up to 200k or so - there's a paragraph in "man
7 tuning" on this.

If the application is critical then benchmarking "real use" as closely
as possible will enable you to find optimal sizes for stripes, and is
probably time well spent.


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