Subject: Re: 160GB IDE Drives under NetBSD?
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/23/2002 15:01:29
>
> The defaults aren't right for modern disks.  IIRC someone recently
> suggested that about 100-200 cylinder groups is reasonable.  Searching
> through 17867 of them for free space (when the disk gets full) cannot
> be advantageous.

how big blocksize to you think is OK for large disks?

i use 8192 (general default) and 1024/fragment

will 16384/2048 make general filesystem I/O better? (and waste more space)