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From: doug@feanor.towson.edu (Doug McNaught)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: The better (more suitable)Unix?? FreeBSD or Linux
Date: 17 Feb 1996 16:15:33 -0500
Organization: Towson State University, Towson, MD
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In article <strenDMxJ0H.L2s@netcom.com> stren@netcom.com (Sam Trenholme) writes:
>3) The fact that FreeBSD, though stuck to a 4k block size (yuck, from a
>news feed perspective-- 512-byte blocks would not be too small, but
>ext2's default 1024 is acceptable), seems to have 1k "fregments". DOes
>this mean 4 1k postings will only take up one block?
Correct. This has been a feature of the Berkeley FFS from the
beginning. It's configurable on a per-filesystem basis--you can make a
filesystem with 4K/512b blocks/fragments (good for news), or 8K/2K
(fast at the expense of space for small files) or ... It looks as if
ext2 was intended to use fragments but does not as of now (see the -f
option in the manpage for mke2fs).
-Doug
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