Re: Reserved space (WAS: How to calculate bsdlabel size)

From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 15:11:03 +0100
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:17:35PM +0100, Stijn Hoop wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 01:57:11PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> > <<On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:44:58 +0100 (CET), =?iso-8859-1?q?Claus=20Guttesen?= <cguttesen_at_yahoo.dk> said:
> > 
> > > Does the algorithm(s) rely only on percentage of free
> > > space? On a five TB (netto) filesystem eigth percent
> > > is approx. 410 GB which seems quite alot.
> > 
> > A good Data Structures text will prove to you that the efficiency of
> > hashing algorithms of the sort that the UFS block allocator uses
> > depends only on the occupancy ratio and not on the absolute number of
> > free hash slots.
> 
> Which translates into what wrt this question? That the 8% of free space
> is really necessary for the UFS block allocator to function efficiently?

Yes, that is exactly what it translates to.



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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013_at_student.uu.se
Received on Sat Feb 07 2004 - 05:11:06 UTC

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