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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, bjj@sequent.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Subject: Re: Number of superblocks on big disks.
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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