Subject: Re: cluster waste?
To: Marton Fabo <morton@eik.bme.hu>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/18/2004 14:53:54
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:11:34PM +0100, Marton Fabo wrote:

> A-ha! What are the consequences if I reduce that amount?

The find free blocks algorithm of the file system gets slow on average
if the disk is too full; that's why there _is_ this reserve in the first=20
place. Read the technical papers about the ffs design if you want the
details.

Regards,
	-is

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