Re: mke2fs options for large media archive filesystem

[Bastien Traverse <bastien.traverse@gmail.com>]

Le 02/02/2014 17:35, Vitaliy Filippov a écrit :
> I personally don't think you'll really benefit from bigalloc on a
> 1TB archive partition.

Le 03/02/2014 02:30, Andreas Dilger a écrit :
> I would say that bigalloc is probably not what you want for an
> archival system.

Thanks for the enlightenment! I'll leave bigalloc aside for this usage,
but I'll definitely keep it around for another use case that I wanted to
submit to the list (in a later message).

> Since you already know the average file size, using -i {average size}
> is what you want. The -N option is just a different way of specifying
> the same thing, the underlying filesystem ends up being the same.
>
> I would also recommend to allocate about 2x the inodes you think you >
will need. If there are suddenly thumbnails of the photos or key      >
photos for videos then you don't want to run out of inodes.

Thanks a lot, this is much helpful. It confirms my intent to go for a 2M
bytes-per-inode ratio so as to reach ~460k inodes (or twice as much as
I'll probably need).

Cheers, Bastien


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