I recommend not going below 2 or 3%. For large filesystems I think
that 5% is indeed a bit much.
I have a filesystem with -m 1. (I think that... ) I know what I'm
doing. That filesystem fills up to whatever I need, and then gets
completely whacked again. It is NOT slowly filling up and then
hoovering around the "almost full" range, like many filesystems do.
> The -b 4096 is good advice though, it should be the default on partions
> bigger than 100 MB or so. -i 16384 also isn't bad if you don't plan on
> storing lots (and that is _lots_) of small files.
It will be default soon. Calculate the average filesize for your
intended usage. Multiply by four for a safe margin.
The guys looking for oil will for example store at most a few thousand
300Mb files on a 300Gb partition. Add in a few ten-thousands small
files, and that'll be all. But maybe you're going to store millions of
small (< 1k) files, In that case, the 1k blocksize is not a bad idea,
and the many inodes config isn't too bad either.....
In conclusion, it pays to do the math on such VERY large filesystems.
Roger.
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