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Date:      Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:28 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        pb@fasterix.freenix.fr (Pierre Beyssac)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: newfs weirdness...
Message-ID:  <199505240801.KAA17853@blaise.ibp.fr>
In-Reply-To: <199505240059.CAA12436@fasterix.frmug.fr.net> from "Pierre Beyssac" at May 24, 95 02:59:51 am

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> newfs doesn't seem to use the number of sectors by cylinder it gets
> from the disklabel. It correctly warns that it will use 4096 and that
> it differs from the disklabel value, though.
> 
> Is that the expected behaviour ?

Yes. Poul-Henning found that it was the best "geometry" to use with
modern SCSI drives. Don't worry about it.

-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950503 #3: Wed May  3 19:53:04 MET DST 1995



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