From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 9:32:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from aldan.algebra.com (aldan.algebra.com [216.254.65.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3F337B408; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:32:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aldan.algebra.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aldan.algebra.com (8.11.6/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9QGTwa79290; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:30:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mi@aldan.algebra.com) Message-Id: <200110261630.f9QGTwa79290@aldan.algebra.com> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:29:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20011026153413.Z75481@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 26 Oct, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:42:32PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: >>"-c" was a no-brainer as noone has ever argued that a low "-c" was >>prefered (that I've seen). > > I can think of one case: For small filesystems, I often reduce "-c" to > ensure that there are at least 2 cylinder groups (in case one > superblock gets corrupted). Where there are only 2-3 CG's, I might > juggle "-c" and the slice size to make the last CG the same size as > the other CGs. Why don't we make newfs apply this (and/or similar) heuristics by default -- when no options are specified? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message