From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 10:01:52 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4FB4F924.8020704@0x6a.com> References: <4FB4F924.8020704@0x6a.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Thinkpad T61 Installation Experience Topicbox-Message-UUID: 90dadec6-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Please read cwfs(4) man page. In there is a description of the > different partitions and their uses. In particular you don't want > fscache to fill up as it causes the front to fall off. > It sounds also like you may need to read up on cache/worm filesystems in > general. in your case 10G is not all you've got available for 'root', > just what you've got available for new writes between dumps to worm. remember that the bigger the cache, the more cache buckets you need, and the more ram they will take up. you can get into a situation where most io is swapping cache buckets around, so a relatively small cache is recommended. (this is the same for cwfs and ken's file system.) i'd recommend the relation 5gb of cache per gb of memory in the fs block (memory) cache, but this isn't a scientific calcuation. - erik