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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 1997 22:10:10 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers)
Subject:   Re: daily panics, ffs_valloc: dup alloc - Good news!
Message-ID:  <Mutt.19970209221010.j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199702091853.NAA24339@lakes.water.net>; from Thomas David Rivers on Feb 9, 1997 13:53:34 -0500
References:  <199702091853.NAA24339@lakes.water.net>

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As Thomas David Rivers wrote:

> As I said before; I would test our Joerg's supposition.  I'm happy to
> report it seems to be right on the money! (Good work!)

> I built a new "newfs", with NTRACKS bumped to 2 and NSECTORS dropped 
> to 2048.

Great to hear!  The `Good work' is your flowers: you've done the major
part here.

> We should probably go ahead and use this work-around in 2.1.7 and
> 2.2.

I'm also for it.  What do other people think?

> [Now, the question becomes how to adjust an existing file system; which
> I don't think can be done :-) ]

I think you could modify tunefs(8) to do just this.  Remember to
umount the filesystem before, since the umount might update that part
of the superblocks (i'm not sure).

-- 
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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