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Date:      Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:18:32 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.c 
Message-ID:  <200103270818.f2R8IWw48188@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>  of "Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:34:59 -0800." <200103270134.f2R1Yxj90971@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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> obrien      2001/03/26 17:34:59 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sbin/newfs           newfs.c 
>   Log:
>   The common wisdom is to use the largest number of cylinders per group.
>   So bump the default from `16' to `22', which is the largest value allowed
>   with the current default block size.  This change increases the the
>   group size from 32MB/g to 44MB/g on a 4GB SCSI disk.

Does this increase performance ?

I'm just wondering what sort of threshold is optimum on a modern disk 
with a ficticious geometry....  do you have any numbers ?

I would suspect the answer is ``yes performance is better'', but maybe 
some more exotic geometry would give more cylinders per group and 
even better performance ?

>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.33      +5 -4      src/sbin/newfs/newfs.c

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