On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 13:56, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...> wrote:
On Sunday 2013-10-27 21:16, Yamaban wrote:
I can vividly remember disaster recovery of a /var/spool/mail partition in 1999, with the changed use from mbox to maildir... most mails where about less then 4 kB
Stats time. For 46 hoarded messages, I have
Min. 1st Qu. Median Mean 3rd Qu. Max. 105 2263 3564 55700 6858 2299000
In other words: 4 KB blocks is "juuuuust fine". In 2013. :^)
And what is the inode_ratio?, sadly blocksize will not help you with the matter of a to small number of inodes available. In your example setting inode_ratio=4096 would do the trick. Just hoping that mke2fs will do the "right" thing will lead you astray. ATM /etc/mke2fs.conf defines a inode_ratio=16kB, that is ok for /usr/... , for a partition with pics, music and video, inode_ratio=64kB would be enough. For my $HOME I would need inode_ratio=8kB, b/c I do programming. I know that, but a Newbie User? I think not. For the non involved reiserfs, or -within limits- btrfs, are the sane choices. The defaults for ext[234] fs are inviting crashes. The YaST Partitioner should at least give a warning about number of inodes, and give a 'average file-size' option to select the correct "inode_ratio" for ext-fs (pre-select the default for partition-size). Other filesystems (XFS,JFS,ZFS,...) should be only in expert-mode made available, or above a certain partition-size (see btrfs and 15TB), with a strong hint about these fs not being useful in most SOHO cases. Thus I understand the propagating of btrfs as filesystem of choice. That's my 2ct on that. -Yamaban. PS: My spell checker had a funny: for "btrfs" it proposed "barfs". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org