Minimum size for a hammer file system?

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Fri Apr 23 02:51:38 PDT 2010


On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 11:21:27 +0200
Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:

> Am 23.04.2010 09:19, schrieb Colin Adams:
> > I thought I had previously seen (on this mailing list) advice that
> > hammer was designed for use on 500GB systems or bigger. Accordingly, as
> > I only have a 160GB drive, I am not using it.
> >
> > But just now (after reading some of today's messages), I took a look at
> > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/ to learn more about hammer. There is
> > says it is designed to be used on 50GB or more. So was I misreading
> > earlier, or have improvements meant it is now practical for smaller file
> > systems?
> 
> 50MB is what we recommend officially, thought people also have run it on 

	er 50GB

> smaller disks.
> 
> The 500 you read surely was a typo.

	as was that M ;)

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