Subject: Re: minfree - 5% or 10% by default?
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@NetBSD.org>
From: Denis Lagno <dlagno@smtp.ru>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/18/2004 10:41:14
it is misc/22235

> On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 06:31:16PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> > 
> > newfs.8 talks about minfree defaulting to 5%, while
> > tunefs.8 talks about 10%. Which one is true,
> > and can someone please adjust the wrong manpage? :)
> 
> I guess, both can be correct, as those are different programs.
> 
> That is, newfs creates 5% filesystems, while tunefs creates 10%
> filesystems.
> 
> Now, reading the source, this is wrong. Tunefs never sets minfree 
> unless explicitly given, so that sentence should be deleted from
> the tunefs manual page. 5% is the default value used by newfs.