Re: 2.3.x wish list
Jason Stone (jason@shalott.net)
Tue, 18 May 1999 12:19:09 -0700 (PDT)
>> It is often very "unacceptable" to run out of inodes: you get "disk
>> full" errors, but df just reports lots of free space.
>>
>> I think you can print a warning if your "new guidelines" aren't
>> followed, but I don't think you should force your new guidlines on
>> everybody. (well, we're talking about changing the default. But nobody
>> ever changes the default....)
>>
> Roger,
>
> I think the news-master which takes the settings from mke2fs for
> granted is not a very good news-master and deserves a disk-full
> error?
Yeah, if you can't be bothered to read the man page and set your own
options, you deserve what you get. The slackware install (does anyone
still use slackware?) used to give you the option of setting the
block size and explained what the differences were - but I guess
this was too complicated for Joe Redhat user....
I think that intelligent setting of the default size is a very good idea.
-Jason
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