Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:37:42 +0100 (CET) From: BOUWSMA Beery <freebsd-user@netscum.dyndns.dk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: mount_mfs spits out potentially disturbing warnings Message-ID: <200112290237.fBT2bgA00753@beerswilling.netscum.dyndns.dk>
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[replies sent directly to me may timeout and bounce, since I'm not online as often as I should be, but I'll check the list archives] Whassup Some time back (like half a year ago), the following /etc/fstab line, copied from some man page or tutorial I cannot remember now, worked to give a /tmp without any problems in -stable (of course, it doesn't work in -current, but this is the -stable list): /dev/ad0s3b /tmp mfs rw 0 0 A month or two back, this line resulted in complaints at boot time which freaked me out (since I had `newfs'ed a partition to handle huge files, which had turned out to be incompatible with FreeBSD 3.x). A few days ago, the warning (which I had determined just what it was and had learned to ignore) changed (and now I think I know why), so that today at boot time, when mounting filesystems, I get /dev/ad0s3h: FILESYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS /dev/ad0s3h: clean, 43620725 free (13 frags, 5452589 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation) * Warning: Block size and bytes per inode restrict cylinders per group to 94. Doing initial network setup: hostname. This warning is the same that one sees when running `newfs' as well as `mount_mfs' by hand. I haven't checked, but I don't think there is anything wrong with the fstab line, and I don't think that the mfs filesystem suffers in any way, so I suggest... * when calling newfs/mount_mfs as `mount_mfs', unless there is a good reason otherwise, don't output that Warning: line. As far as `newfs' goes, while I haven't tried it, I'm guessing that now newfs tries for the largest possible count of cylinders/group in the new filesystem, just like long ago when I gave an absurdly large `-c' value to see what the maximum I could get away with was. I'll have to look more closely to decide if this message would be better reworded. thanks barry bouwsma To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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