Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 17:50:47 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bjj@sequent.com, wilko@yedi.iaf.nl Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr Subject: Re: Number of superblocks on big disks. Message-ID: <199601080650.RAA13341@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>takes longer, though. A quick look at the source to FreeBSD newfs >suggests that contrary to the manual page, we default to `-i 4096'*, >wheras SunOS is defaulting to `-i 2048', which would spend twice as much >time writing inodes. >* fsize defaults to pp->p_fsize, which defaults to 1k, and density defaults > to NFPI (4) * fsize => 4096. I fixed the code to match the man page in my version, but 4.4lite2 fixed the man page to match the code. The latter seems best - if the frag size is large then you probably don't plan to have many small files, so you probably want less inodes. Bruce
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