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From: vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Fast File System: optimizing arguments to newfs
Date: 21 Jan 95 14:38:52
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In-reply-to: alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com's message of 17 Jan 1995 23:24:25 GMT

900MB out of 9GB is probably still the right answer.  The goal is to make sure
that there is almost always a free block in the cylinder you are in, and 10%
is approximately the right thing even if you have 9GB of total space.
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Paul Vixie
La Honda, CA
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