From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 6 22:41:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA19458 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 22:41:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA19442 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 22:41:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id HAA12902 ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 07:41:27 +0100 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id HAA18712 ; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 07:41:26 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.3/keltia-uucp-2.7) id AAA04097; Sun, 7 Jan 1996 00:54:37 +0100 (MET) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199601062354.AAA04097@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: Number of superblocks on big disks. To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 00:54:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jaye Mathisen" at Jan 6, 96 10:15:54 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1530 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Jaye Mathisen said: > a) It takes forever > b) How many people have actually had to use the 390th copy of the > superblock to fix their disks into a usable form? This is the way FFS is built. One superblock copy by cylinder group. You can't change that. If you want less copies, use larger cylinder groups... usage: newfs [ -fsoptions ] special-device [device-type] where fsoptions are: [...] -c cylinders/group -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #12: Sun Dec 31 16:05:48 MET 1995