Re: Default mount options (that suck less).

Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29T15:26:44Z

Niv Sardi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> XFS's default mount options are in most cases sub-optimal, we should try
> to have more sensible defaults, so far I'm following some quick dave-powered
> recomendations:
>
> - version 2 logs
> - attr2
> - lazy superblock counters
> - less allocation groups for single disk configs
>
> - imaxpct default can be reduced
>
> it is currently 25, what would be reasonable ?
>
> - dropping the ability to turn unwritten extents off completely
>
> please submit your pet-idea for better defaults here.

Sorry for all the replies ;-)

What would you think of a mkfs conf file like e2fsprogs has, which
defines filesystem classes, and defaults for each? (small, news,
largefile, etc...)

-Eric