Re: Small fs

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Chris Murphy posted on Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:48:49 -0600 as excerpted:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> On the bright side, the double-whammy of being under such tight
>> filesystem size constraints, coupled with finding out you have less
>> than half the space of the filesystem actually available due to
>> default-mixed-mode AND default dup-metadata (thus dup everything),
> 
> I'm not following what you mean by default dup everything. You mean
> that's how it used to work? Because on a real USB stick, 2GiB:


Yes.  What I meant is that now that --mixed isn't default, it avoids auto-
halving the space due to duping the data as well (which AFAIK it used to 
do by default since mixed-mode treated everything as metadata, and 
metadata defaults are dup except on ssd), in mixed-mode.

Tho now that I think of it, it's possible I'm mistaken, since I always 
specify single/dup/raid1/whatever, as well as mixed if I want it, 
choosing not to rely on the defaults, myself.

Which seems a pretty wise choice, with the defaults changing over time, 
sometimes, as with removal of the old default mixed under a GiB, to 
strongly dis-recommended defaults. =:^(

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