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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 ?

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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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