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From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
Subject: Re: bin/163992: dumpfs(8): dumpfs -m is broken
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The following reply was made to PR bin/163992; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Dieter BSD" <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
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Subject: Re: bin/163992: dumpfs(8): dumpfs -m is broken
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:48:25 -0500

 newfs -e 100000000 -b 65536 -f 8192 -g 67108864 -h 16 -i 67108864
  -U -o space -L ${DISK_NUM}data /dev/${DISK_PORT}
 
 newfs says:
 
 density reduced from 67108864 to 14860288
 /dev/ada12: 2861588.5MB (5860533168 sectors) block size 65536,
  fragment size 8192
         using 789 cylinder groups of 3628.00MB, 58048 blks, 256 inodes.
         with soft updates
 super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
  256, 7430400, 14860544, 22290688, 29720832, [ ... ]
 
 The new dumpfs says:
 
 newfs -L 71data -O 2 -U -a 2 -b 65536 -d 65536 -e 100000000 -f 8192
  -g 67108864 -h 16 -i 14868480 -m 8 -o space -s 5860533168 /dev/ufs/71data
 
 A definite improvement,  Thank you.
 
 However...
 The -i argument is off by 8K.
 At least it is off in the desired direction. :-)
 
 The -a 2 is troubling since the default is supposed to be 16 [1].
 And is a rotational delay still desirable with modern disks?
 (large on-disk buffers, variable number of sectors/track, ...)
 I've posted a query about this to the fs and performance lists.
 
 -d is supposed to default to 16 times the file system blocksize [1].
 
 [1] According to the newfs man page.