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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au
Cc:        obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c
Message-ID:  <200110261630.f9QGTwa79290@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011026153413.Z75481@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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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



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