On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Louis Guillaume wrote:

> David Laight wrote:

>> Under NetBSD the only differences are:
>> 1) FFSv2 inodes are twice the size
>> 2) FFSv2 netfs is faster - doesn't write all the inode sectors.
>> 3) FFSv2 can be used with 512byte fragemnts on a 2^32 sector partition
>
> I've been trying to research which fs type to use for large partitions on 
> NetBSD. The jist of what I've heard is that...
>
> <  1TB - FFSv1
>> = 1TB - FFSv2
>>  (5?)TB - SAN/NAS

So, if this is the summary, I'm thinking I might do well to change my 121GB
netbsd partition to ffsv1 because of lowered overhead?

Now I have to change my i386 kernel to turn off hyperthreading because
that's supposed to be a big lose under NetBSD, too.

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