From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <xfs@tlinx.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: block sizes > 4K ?? possible w/large page support?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:32:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FD6AA2A.3020502@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FD5643F.5070801@tlinx.org>
On 6/10/12 10:21 PM, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
> Is this something being thought about??
>
> More than one of my hard disks:
>
> /boot: 130 files in 103112 4K blocks: 793.6 blks/file
> /tmp: 1401 files in 746715 4K blocks: 533.4 blks/file
> /var/cache: 1438 files in 87858 4K blocks: 61.5 blks/file
> /backups: 713 files in 2523985177 4K blocks: 3539951.6 blks/file
> /var: 9038 files in 746715 4K blocks: 83.1 blks/file
> /var/cache/squid: 570 files in 90031 4K blocks: 158.4 blks/file
> /Media: 51893 files in 1691400956 4K blocks: 32594.5 blks/file
> /: 37312 files in 506778 4K blocks: 14.0 blks/file
> /usr/share: 320805 files in 195425485 4K blocks: 609.6 blks/file
> /backups/Media: 50544 files in 1642550112 4K blocks: 32497.9 blks/file
> /usr: 116650 files in 1389380 4K blocks: 12.4 blks/file
> /Share: 1617995 files in 305269701 4K blocks: 189.1 blks/file
> /home: 5822174 files in 195412389 4K blocks: 34.0 blks/file
>
> All but 2 could benefit from a 16K block size, and 3 of them could benefit
> from a 128K block size. Wouldn't that benefit in in freeing up some space
> both on disk and in memory? Just a thought.
Since on average each file in an evenly-distributed filesystem wastes half
a block, in theory each fs would waste 4x more space w/ 16k blocks than
4k blocks, right?
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-12 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-11 3:21 block sizes > 4K ?? possible w/large page support? Linda A. Walsh
2012-06-11 13:13 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-06-11 13:29 ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-06-11 14:54 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-06-11 16:21 ` Carlos Maiolino
2012-06-11 21:25 ` Stefan Ring
2012-06-11 23:56 ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-12 0:08 ` Dave Chinner
2012-06-12 2:32 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2012-06-12 17:37 ` Linda A. Walsh
2012-06-12 18:55 ` Eric Sandeen
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