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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 14:35:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: UFS2 now the default creation type on 5.0-CURRENT 
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In message <3EA686D9.50808@tcoip.com.br>, "Daniel C. Sobral" writes:
>Terry Lambert wrote:
>> "Wilkinson,Alex" wrote:
>> 
>>>Thanks for that.
>>>
>>>Do you know if UFS2 dynamically allocates inodes ?
>> 
>> 
>> No; it gets them from the prereserved inodes area that is
>
>?
>
>AFAIK, it *does* dynamically allocate inodes.

No it does not.  Inodes are preallocated, but it dynamincally
initializes them.  This mainly means that newfs(8) runs much faster.

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