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From: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: minfree, inodes
Message-ID: <1991Feb08.161751.13172@eye.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:17:51 GMT
Reply-To: paul@eye.com (Paul B. Booth)
Organization: 3D/Eye Inc., Ithaca, NY
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Ho netters-

I'd really be interested to know how y'all feel about settings for minfree
and bytes-per-inode when making new file systems under hp-ux.  For a long
time now, I've been setting up filesystem with "newfs -i 8192 -m 5" to get
a bit of extra space out of the disks (on root systems, I don't use -m 5).
I figure that in most file systems, you always have way too many inodes, and
that on larger disks (>300Mb), there's no need to reserve 30Mb for system use.
Am I crazy?  Am I fragmenting my disks too much with -m 5?  Can I use less
bytes-per-inode?  Any other tuning ideas out there?

I'd really be interested in people's opinions on this, and will gladly post
a summary of email responses.

Thanks

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Paul B. Booth  (paul@eye.com) (...!hplabs!hpfcla!eye!paul)
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