Date: Sun, 7 Jan 1996 17:49:02 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mrcpu@cdsnet.net Subject: Re: Number of superblocks on big disks. Message-ID: <199601070649.RAA27820@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Is there some real good reason to keep the huge number of superblock >backups that exists when formatting very large disks? It's part of the file system format. There is a superblock for each cylinder group. >a) It takes forever Most of the time is for writing the inodes for each cylinder group. Bruce
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