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Date:      Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:34:49 +1000 (EST)
From:      Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: nobody knows the answer?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909021633350.51435-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990901173018.99471A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com>

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On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, David Scheidt wrote:

> You have almost certainly run out of file fragments.  Space on FFS
> filesystems is allocated in the from of blocks, which are divided into
> fragments.  These blocks are not the same as the physical disk blocks, but
> are a number of sequential disk blocks.  The default FFS block size is 8KB.
> Each FFS block is subdivided into fragments.  The default is 8 fragments per
> block, giving a default frag size of 1KB.  

A very nice, simple, explanation.

What are Cylinder Groups for?

> 
> David Scheidt
> 

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        Andy Farkas
    System Administrator
   Speednet Communications
 http://www.speednet.com.au/
  




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