From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Cc: Niv Sardi <xaiki@sgi.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Default mount options (that suck less).
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:51:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47260168.3000003@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071029154456.GA25142@puku.stupidest.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-29 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-29 7:56 Default mount options (that suck less) Niv Sardi
2007-10-29 8:55 ` David Chinner
2007-10-29 10:44 ` nscott
2007-10-29 14:01 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29 21:26 ` David Chinner
2007-10-29 14:03 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29 15:05 ` Hannes Dorbath
2007-10-29 15:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-30 8:40 ` Stewart Smith
2007-10-31 4:11 ` Nathan Scott
2007-10-31 4:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29 21:05 ` David Chinner
2007-10-29 15:26 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-29 15:44 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-10-29 15:51 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2007-10-30 0:45 ` Timothy Shimmin
2007-10-31 11:05 ` James Braid
2007-10-31 11:27 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-11-01 0:47 ` James Braid
2007-10-31 15:21 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-10-31 15:41 ` Chris Wedgwood
2007-11-01 0:32 ` James Braid
2007-10-29 23:48 ` David Chinner
2007-10-31 23:35 ` Niv Sardi
2007-10-31 23:40 ` Niv Sardi
2007-11-01 1:17 ` Niv Sardi
2007-11-01 2:27 ` Eric Sandeen
2007-11-12 2:28 ` Niv Sardi
2007-11-12 3:10 ` David Chinner
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Default to log version 2 xaiki
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Default to version 2 attributes xaiki
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Drop the ability to turn unwritten extents off completly xaiki
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] V2 inodes per default, and move DFL bits to XFS_DFL_SB_VERSION_BITS, xaiki
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] reduce imaxpct for big filesystems, xaiki
2007-11-12 3:48 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] less AGs for single disks configs xaiki
2007-11-12 9:01 ` David Chinner
2007-11-12 14:57 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-11-12 20:31 ` David Chinner
2007-11-12 6:33 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] reduce imaxpct for big filesystems, David Chinner
2007-11-12 6:31 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] V2 inodes per default, and move DFL bits to XFS_DFL_SB_VERSION_BITS, David Chinner
2007-11-13 0:51 ` Niv Sardi
2007-11-12 6:27 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Drop the ability to turn unwritten extents off completly David Chinner
2007-11-12 6:24 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Default to version 2 attributes David Chinner
2007-11-12 6:23 ` [[PATCH, RESEND]] Default to log version 2 David Chinner
2007-11-13 4:10 ` RESEND(2) xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 1/6] Default to log version 2 xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 2/6] Default to version 2 attributes xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 3/6] Drop the ability to turn unwritten extents off completly xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 4/6] V2 inodes per default, and move DFL bits to XFS_DFL_SB_VERSION_BITS, xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 5/6] reduce imaxpct for big filesystems, xaiki
2007-11-13 4:10 ` [PATCH TAKE 2 6/6] less AGs for single disks configs xaiki
2007-11-13 4:47 ` RESEND(2) David Chinner
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