From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 20 17:54:53 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA07424 for current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:54:53 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA07416 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:54:52 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id RAA20970; Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:54:15 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199502210154.RAA20970@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: newfs: sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label (36) To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Date: Mon, 20 Feb 1995 17:54:14 -0800 (PST) Cc: jhs@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199502210125.RAA20482@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Feb 20, 95 05:25:29 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 455 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.