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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