Re: CVS commit: src/distrib/utils/sysinst

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:52:39AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 08:03:54AM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > > I suggested that to ad in private email earlier. UFS1 is still good for
> > > > small file systems because it has less overhead.
> > > 
> > > Is the possible overhead noticeable on the modern CPU?
> > > If not, it's okay to change default per port basis
> > > because users can still change it to UFS1 manually.
> > 
> > It is not about CPU, it is about disk space usage. Inodes are twice the
> > size and that sums up depending on the file system size.
> 
> Then, is it matter for modern GB HDD? ;-p

Yes, as the default settings for big filesystems are still lots of
inodes. E.g. for /home, I got 10 million inodes. An additional 128 Bytes
per inode sums up. This scales with the size of the filesystem...

Joerg