Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:54:14 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) Message-ID: <199502210154.RAA20970@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199502210125.RAA20482@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Feb 20, 95 05:25:29 pm
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> This is caused by phk's changes to the behavior of newfs, it now > uses 1 head/cylinder, 4096 sectors/track by default. This was an > attempt to increase performace. I have found that it does nothing > for any disks I use and just leads to problems while newfsing several > of them. How did you measure this ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.
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