Re: Default mount options (that suck less).

Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29T15:51:06Z

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:26:44AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> What would you think of a mkfs conf file like e2fsprogs has, which
>> defines filesystem classes, and defaults for each? (small, news,
>> largefile, etc...)
>
> That makes more sense for ext2/3 where some meta-data isn't
> dynamically allocated as needed, for example, historically nntp
> servers used one file per article and would often run out of inodes.

well, anything that is fixed at mkfs time could use this... inode size,
ag count, etc. If there are common use cases which would want different
mkfs-fixed defaults, it might make sense.

-Eric