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Date:      Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:14:02 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Non-standard FFS parameters
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910080912200.54250-100000@freja.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <199910080501.WAA98482@apollo.backplane.com>

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On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:

> :> 
> :>     Try using a smaller block size, like 16K.  If that doesn't work then just
> :>     stick with 8K I guess.  The kernel's clustering code should still make it
> :>     reasonably efficient.
> :
> :Yeah, I guess that's the only way to do it on 3.x... But how can I speed
> :up fsck then, since newfs will create millions of inodes I don't need
> :which will cause fsck to run for ages...
> :
> :Andrzej Bialecki
> 
>     The problem should only be effected by the blocksize (-b) specification.
> 
>     Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not 
>     pose a problem.

IOW now you say it's ok to use very high values of -i... ;-) 

Andrzej Bialecki

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