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To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: Optimal UFS parameters 
In-Reply-To: Message from Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> 
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:37:30 -0800
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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>     It would be nice to up the default cylinders/group in sysinstall
>     for larger partitions (anything over 8GB).  I wouldn't up it to
>     159 as a default, but 32 would be a whole lot better then the

Well, if somebody wants to figure out the best defaults, they're
easily set in sysinstall/label.c:new_part(); just calcuate the values
dynamically rather than copying in the contents of VAR_NEWFS_ARGS.
I'm sure it'd be a snap for a bunch of bright guys like you. :)

- Jordan


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