[OpenAFS-devel] suggested feature...

Daniel Jacobowitz dmj+afs@andrew.cmu.edu
Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:24:36 -0400


On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:14:42PM -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> David Thompson <thomas@cs.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > This is a standard cache partition size:
> > 
> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda9               124427     89819     28184  77% /var/vice/cache
> 
> You didn't show me what 'fdisk' says for the partition size.  That's
> what I was referring to.
> 
> > I won't believe that ext2 has ~20% overhead.  There are clearly
> > situations where, for brief periods of time, the cache limit does
> > get exceeded.
> 
> Note that if you add up the 'used' and 'available' you get 118003,
> which is an overhead (from the 124427) of about 5%.  However, I would

Actually, that's not overhead, just "reserved for the superuser".  If
afsd is running as root, which it presumably is, 124427 blocks will
actually be available.  df only shows user data blocks.

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