From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 6 10:13:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA06874 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (schizo.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.32]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA06869 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:13:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mrcpu@localhost) by schizo.cdsnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01766; Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:15:54 -0800 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 10:15:54 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Number of superblocks on big disks. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Is there some real good reason to keep the huge number of superblock backups that exists when formatting very large disks? a) It takes forever b) How many people have actually had to use the 390th copy of the superblock to fix their disks into a usable form? Seems like a nice round 16 or so copies would be sufficient. Or at least the option to specify fewer.