Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 19:37:04 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: BRETT_GLASS@ccgate.infoworld.com, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: hardware@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, randy@zyzzyva.com, rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com Subject: Re: Mapped geometry vs. Actual Message-ID: <199608050937.TAA09932@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>>> It seems as if it also tries to force disk slices to >>>> cylinder boundaries -- which is silly on ZBR drives or when sector >>>> mapping is done. >>... >>I said "slices," not "partitions." FreeBSD seems to insist upon moving >>things to cylinder boundaries even within partitions. >That is also for backwards compatibility mode. 386BSD :-) NetBSD, OpenBSD, ... I don't think there was ever such a restriction. However, ufs wants to do things in terms of cylinder groups so partial cylinder [groups?] at best wastes space for partitions that contain ufs file systems. It sometimes wastes a lot of space - try newfs with the default parameters on a floppy. Bruce
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