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Date:      Thu, 7 Oct 1999 22:01:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Non-standard FFS parameters
Message-ID:  <199910080501.WAA98482@apollo.backplane.com>
References:   <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910072301530.39149-100000@freja.webgiro.com>

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:> 
:>     Try using a smaller block size, like 16K.  If that doesn't work then just
:>     stick with 8K I guess.  The kernel's clustering code should still make it
:>     reasonably efficient.
:
:Yeah, I guess that's the only way to do it on 3.x... But how can I speed
:up fsck then, since newfs will create millions of inodes I don't need
:which will cause fsck to run for ages...
:
:Andrzej Bialecki

    The problem should only be effected by the blocksize (-b) specification.

    Adjusting the bytes-per-inode (-i) specification in newfs should not 
    pose a problem.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>


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