Callum Lerwick wrote: > On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 12:00 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: >> On a 256mb filesystem the journal will only be 32mb by default. Still a >> chunk of the fs, but not half! :) > > Hmmm, I think this has changed over the years, but it seems the recent > code looks like this: > > int ext2fs_default_journal_size(__u64 blocks) > { > if (blocks < 2048) > return -1; > if (blocks < 32768) > return (1024); > if (blocks < 256*1024) > return (4096); > if (blocks < 512*1024) > return (8192); > if (blocks < 1024*1024) > return (16384); > return 32768; > } > > It's based on block size. So on a 256mb filesystem, the block size > defaults to 1k, and you get an 8mb journal. You're right, I used 4k blocks in my napkin-sketch, oops :) -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list