Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 19:53:21 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, bjj@sequent.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: Number of superblocks on big disks. Message-ID: <199601080853.TAA18733@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>takes longer, though. A quick look at the source to FreeBSD newfs >>suggests that contrary to the manual page, we default to `-i 4096'*, >>wheras SunOS is defaulting to `-i 2048', which would spend twice as much >>time writing inodes. I wrote: >I fixed the code to match the man page in my version, but 4.4lite2 fixed >the man page to match the code. The latter seems best - if the frag >size is large then you probably don't plan to have many small files, >so you probably want less inodes. Actually, 4.4lite2 didn't change anything in this area. Bruce
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