Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:15:26 -0700 From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New option for newfs Message-ID: <200109201815.f8KIFQh33875@beastie.mckusick.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:41:30 PDT." <20010920094130.A54908@dragon.nuxi.com>
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> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 09:41:30 -0700
> From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
> To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@eurocontrol.fr>
> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: New option for newfs
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 06:14:23PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> > Proposal: a new option ('-M') that says: ignore -c if present, calculate
> > the maxcpg allowed for the given argument to newfs and use that.
>
> I like the general idea, but not adding another option (especially one
> that says to ignore another one). What about chaning -c to accept 0 or
> -1 and to use the largest maxcpg value possible.
I like the idea, but also do not like the implementation.
I would propose an even simpler change. If -c is not specified,
have it select the maximum possible rather than the current
default value of 22. Users that do not want the maximum possible
can over-ride that default by using -c.
Kirk McKusick
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