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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Fast File System: optimizing arguments to newfs
Date: 13 Jan 1995 23:38:04 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:

>The defaults for newfs are generally geared for (2), so no need
>to change things.  If you really want to maximize space for 2GB disks,
>having "-m 5" will probably not mean much loss of performance.

Sun defaults newfs to -i 2048.  We use -i 8192 and never run out
of inodes on all but news disks for which we use the default 2048
(with a block/fragment size of 4096/512)

Casper