On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:04:07AM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> Has anyone revalidated those numbers for modern disks?  When FFS first 
> came out, there was a lot of talk about rotational optimizations, 
> staying within the cylinder, etc.  Nowadays, of course, that's all 
> mythical.  

And 10% of a current disk are more than 10GB. That seems like a *lot* of
space to waste. The minimum free space threshold should probably be
determined automatically during "newfs" based on the filesystem size.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/