Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:34:49 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nobody knows the answer? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909021633350.51435-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990901173018.99471A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>
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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> You have almost certainly run out of file fragments. Space on FFS
> filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into
> fragments. These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but
> are a number of sequential disk blocks. The default FFS block size is 8KB.
> Each FFS block is subdivided into fragments. The default is 8 fragments per
> block, giving a default frag size of 1KB.
A very nice, simple, explanation.
What are Cylinder Groups for?
>
> David Scheidt
>
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