Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:45:15 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Subject: Re: newfs incantations Message-ID: <19970518224515.KK21485@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705152038.NAA01027@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 15, 1997 13:38:16 -0700 References: <199705152038.NAA01027@seagull.rtd.com>
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As Don Yuniskis wrote: > I'm trying to sort through the effects of all the 497 > different switches you can pass to newfs :-( Not a big problem. Unless you run a `real' disk (*), almost any option you would specify is likely to have only bad effects. Don't use an option at all if you're unsure. (*) That is: floppy (there's an example in /etc/disktab), MO, good ol' ESDI drive etc., in short, everything that really uses a uniform number of sectors per track. Access to these drives might be improved by using the FFS optimizations, for modern (zone-bit recorded) disks, it will only be a pessimization. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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