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Re: Default mount options (that suck less).

To: Niv Sardi <xaiki@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Default mount options (that suck less).
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:26:44 -0500
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Niv Sardi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> XFS's default mount options are in most cases sub-optimal, we should try
> to have more sensible defaults, so far I'm following some quick dave-powered
> recomendations:
> 
> - version 2 logs
> - attr2
> - lazy superblock counters
> - less allocation groups for single disk configs
> 
> - imaxpct default can be reduced
> 
> it is currently 25, what would be reasonable ?
> 
> - dropping the ability to turn unwritten extents off completely
> 
> please submit your pet-idea for better defaults here.

Sorry for all the replies ;-)

What would you think of a mkfs conf file like e2fsprogs has, which
defines filesystem classes, and defaults for each?  (small, news,
largefile, etc...)

-Eric


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