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Date:      Mon, 10 Oct 2016 14:06:41 +0200
From:      Norbert Koch <nkoch@demig.de>
To:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Why at least 4 cylinder groups?
Message-ID:  <b38d6452-fe18-aeb9-c176-f30fabd9b3f5@demig.de>
In-Reply-To: <1454001217.1275.19.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <56A9D502.7010809@demig.de> <1453995911.1275.14.camel@freebsd.org> <56AA42CF.10408@demig.de> <1454001217.1275.19.camel@freebsd.org>

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Hello.

In an embedded system I am having a rather
small (static) ram disk of about 1.5MB,
formatted as UFS(1).

Under FreeBSD 4 dumpfs shows me there is
1 cylinder group.

Under FreeBSD 9 and 10 I see 4 cylinder groups.

4 is hard coded as the minimum value in ufs/ffs/fs.h. Why?

Is there any technical reason not to have less
than 4 cylinder groups?

For my application the wasted 188KB make a difference.

Thank you,
Norbert Koch




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