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To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 20:30:48 PDT."
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:42:20 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <3BCBA9E8.F0732E5B@DougBarton.net> Doug Barton writes:
: Warner Losh wrote:
: > 
: > In message <200110152328.f9FNSmm74347@misha.privatelabs.com> mi@aldan.algebra.com writes:
: > : I don't like the "vaguesness" of this. Do other ratios work (even if
: > : slower), or do the trigger bugs nobody wants to chase? Just MHO, of
: > : course...
: > 
: > other ratios do seem to work on systems that don't have a high disk
: > load.  we've shipped systems with 4k/1k and haven't had problems with
: > that.
: 
: 	If someone with more knowledge wants to modify the entry I made, my
: feelings certainly won't be hurt. My only purpose was not allowing this
: bit of wisdom to escape documentation, since it's obviously rather
: important.

I'm starting to get the impression that the general wisdom on this is
that there's something subtle that trips people up from time to time
and that it is very hard to run into the conditions necessary for it
to trip.  The docs are ok after your change.

Warner

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