On Mon, 17 May 1999, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> The problem is that a default has to be best for most people. Linus
> pointed out to me, probably correctly, that one of the reasons for our
> lousy performance on the Mindcraft benchmark was probably related to bad
> defaults for the filesystem. And there are going to be far more file
> servers and web servers than news servers used by users, so it makes
> sense to make the defaults be optimized for the more commoon usage
> scenarios.
This would be nice to have incorporated into mke2fs, such as "mke2fs --opt
news"... :-)
Simon
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