From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 4 09:04:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA16445 for current-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 09:04:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from grumble.grondar.za (root@grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA16439 for ; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 09:04:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (mark@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA03271; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 19:03:02 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199601041703.TAA03271@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host mark@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Peter Wemm cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd question.. ;-) Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 19:03:01 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Peter Wemm wrote: > > I have not newfs'ed my disk sice 2.0-R, so I suspect you may have to > > replace the sd0 with sd0s1 or whatever your boot partition is. > > Umm.. you probably should if it's convenient.. (ha! :-) You may not be > getting the benefit from clustering.. Do a "tunefs -p /dev/rsd..." and > see what the "-a" setting is. That is 7. My Min. Free is 8%, and I remember there was the jitter (time <-> space) problem with 5%, so I have done _some_ maintenance. (greps bookshef for usable tape) > Also, do a "dumpfs /dev/rsd..." and see that it says "no rotational > position table".. As I understand it, that table causes the blocks to be > interleaved, defeating any clustering due to "-a". OK - I have a table. Dwat. How does one kill it? M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200 Finger mark@grondar.za for PGP key