RE: Linux and superblocks

From: Juha Saarinen <juha@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 08:29:13 +1200

Mike,

%-> Note that the reason that that 5% is reserved is that ext2 really
%-> likes to have some space left for its anti-fragmentation algorithm.
%-> Yes, you can set it to 0%, but over time performance will suffer badly.

Does this apply to any given volume size? I mean, is it true of say, a 500MB
volume as well as a 5GB volume? 5% would be quite a lot of "wasted" space in
the latter case.

Cheers,

-- Juha
Received on Sun Mar 26 2000 - 13:33:42 MST

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