At Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:22:07 -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > Søren Schimkat wrote: > > > > Which filesystem would you recomend? > > ext3, hands down. Or good old trusty FFS, as the case may be. :-) (It is more than rock solid, and has been tested for decades on dozens of different machine architectures and in many radically different kinds of kernel architectures too.) Currently the largest spool I manage directly (for a small ISP) looks like this (it's running NetBSD-1.6_STABLE on a big Alpha with a nice Apple Xserve RAID): As you will see block consumption well out-paces inode consumption. If I remember correctly the various newfs parameters were automatically calculated from the block/frag numbers specified in the disk label, which were 16k/2k. # BLOCKSIZE=16384 df -i /var/spool/imap Filesyst 16384-blocks Used Avail %Cap iUsed iAvail %iCap Mounted on /dev/sd5a 66561885 1921235 63975031 2% 1150960 65946638 1% /var/spool/imap # dumpfs /var/spool/imap | sed 23q file system: /dev/rsd5a endian little-endian magic 11954 time Tue Jul 11 17:39:52 2006 id [ 0 0 ] cylgrp dynamic inodes 4.4BSD fslevel 3 softdep disabled nbfree 64626086 ndir 33252 nifree 65946639 nffree 139367 ncg 5242 ncyl 131048 size 536772608 blocks 532495087 bsize 16384 shift 14 mask 0xffffc000 fsize 2048 shift 11 mask 0xfffff800 frag 8 shift 3 fsbtodb 2 cpg 25 bpg 12800 fpg 102400 ipg 12800 minfree 1% optim space maxcontig 4 maxbpg 4096 rotdelay 0ms rps 250 ntrak 128 nsect 128 npsect 128 spc 16384 symlinklen 60 trackskew 0 interleave 1 contigsumsize 4 maxfilesize 0x000400400402ffff nindir 4096 inopb 128 nspf 4 avgfilesize 16384 avgfpdir 2000 sblkno 8 cblkno 16 iblkno 24 dblkno 824 sbsize 2048 cgsize 16384 offset 32 mask 0xffffff80 csaddr 824 cssize 83968 shift 10 mask 0xfffffc00 cgrotor 0 fmod 0 ronly 0 clean 0x02 blocks available in each of 1 rotational positions -- Greg A. Woods H:+1 416 218-0098 W:+1 416 489-5852 x122 VE3TCP RoboHack <woods@xxxxxxxxxxx> Planix, Inc. <woods@xxxxxxxxxx> Secrets of the Weird <woods@xxxxxxxxx> ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
