From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Nov 28 09:18:26 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA19577 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:18:26 -0800 Received: from ast.com (irvine.ast.com [165.164.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA19572 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:18:22 -0800 Received: from fw.ast.com by ast.com with SMTP id AA02864 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for ); Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:19:48 -0800 Received: from nemesis by fw.ast.com with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0tKTVl-00008UC; Tue, 28 Nov 95 11:08 CST Received: by nemesis.lonestar.org (Smail3.1.27.1 #20) id m0tKTHh-00081GC; Tue, 28 Nov 95 10:53 WET Message-Id: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 95 10:53 WET To: bugs@freebsd.org From: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Frank Durda IV) Sent: Tue Nov 28 1995, 10:53:32 CST Subject: newfs gets you fewer inodes these days. Why? Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I just installed 2.1 on a system that had a secondary 2GB SCSI that had not been disklabeled and such since the 1.1.5.1 days. It ran 2.0.5 that way without incident but I thought it would be nice to get rid of all the moaning and complaining the 'slicer makes while booting. Ha! After installation, I discovered that the partitions no longer had sufficient inodes to hold the contents I needed to restore. The 1.1.5.1 filesystems were newfs'ed with default settings for inodes back in the 1.1.5.1 days, so THE DEFAULTS WERE USED. Promise. I was amazed at the time that I didn't have to tweak the values. As an example of what is happening, a 450Meg partition ended up with nearly 210K inodes on 1.1.5.1, but on 2.1.0, it got 61438, even less than what a SCO UNIX system would provide for the same size "divvy" (65520). 61438 inodes was I got even with that partition a bit bigger (now 504Meg). So, now I have to figure out how to make the partitions larger (including / and /usr which are both a bit on the small side Inode-wise) whilst still being able to take advantage of some of the installation automation. Does anybody know why the blocks-to-inodes default ratio calculation was changed because it certainly makes migrations more difficult. Frank Durda IV |"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com (Fastest Route)| demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"A what?" ...decvax!fw.ast.com!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983