Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 20:20:32 -0400 From: Gene Stark <gene@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> To: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Ollivier Robert) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs weirdness... Message-ID: <199505250020.UAA09525@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> In-Reply-To: blaise.ibp.fr!roberto@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu's message of Wed, 24 May 1995 10:01:28 %2B0200 (MET DST)
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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. Not everyone is using "modern SCSI drives" (some are even using IDE). It is a constant annoyance to me that after I set up my IDE drive with a particular geometry, newfs ignores it, prints a warning message, and fails to utilize a bunch of odd sectors at the end of each partition. I have said this before, but I really would rather have newfs pay attention to the geometry stated in the disklabel. If you want to format your filesystems a different way, you can always set up your disktab or whatever. - Gene
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