Andreas Dilger wrote: > I suspect that at a certain filesystem size, there isn't much benefit > in having more reserved space. If we keep 50GB of reserved space then > this is likely to contain a decent amount of 1MB free chunks, which is > what we really care about. > > Cheers, Andreas As long as we don't care much about inode<->block locality, that is probably ok... I got one off-list reply from someone who was depending on the 5% for administration reasons, but even if we change the default I assume we'll leave the tunable in place for people who really do want 5% for "root-reserved" over "allocator safety buffer" reasons. -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
