[TUHS] tunefs -m 5%

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  5 March 2021 at 10:32:15 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:50:32AM -0800, John Gilmore wrote:
>> John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I have several 12 TB disks scattered about my house. 5% of 12TB is 600GB.
>>
>> At one point in hystery, ext2 performance was reported to suffer badly
>> if there was less than 5% of disk space available in an active
>> filesystem.  My naive belief, probably informed by older and wiser heads
>> around Sun, was that when the file system was >95% full, ext2 spent a
>> lot of time seeking around in free lists finding single allocatable
>> blocks.  And there were no built-in "defragmentation" programs that
>> could easily fix that.
>
> I'll point out that BSD FFS, at least in BSD 4.3, reserves 10% of the
> file system for reserved blocks.

Oops, that's what I get for reading messages sequentially :-(  But in
this case it's for small values of 10.

Greg
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