| From: | Peter Hutchison |
| Date: | 14 May 2000 at 13:23:12 |
| Subject: | Re: max transfer |
>
> >> Either way, it makes no relevant difference to speed,
> >> if you want it to go faster, use a FFS blocksize of 1024
> >> use more buffers & get a modern (fast) drive...
>
> I find 1024 is a good size for a partition containing lots of small
> files, but a bigger size (16k) gives noticeably faster response on a
> partition used for big audio files. Changing the block size requires
> reformatting the partition, so all data must be backed up and
> restored.
> It won't affect other partitions on the same drive.
>
>
Please note, that some Repair utilities do not like large block sizes
so if it gets invalidated and doesn`t repair automatically, then you could
be stuffed!
Peter
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