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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:34:13 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/newfs newfs.8 newfs.c
Message-ID:  <20011026153413.Z75481@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011014194232.A50125@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.ORG on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:42:32PM -0700
References:  <200110110851.f9B8ptf60343@freefall.freebsd.org> <20011011112527.A54224@coffee.q9media.com> <20011011154203.C44561@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011013143225.B4527@ns2.freenix.org> <20011013172706.A53976@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011014160303.A22301@ns2.freenix.org> <20011014194232.A50125@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:42:32PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
>"-c" was a no-brainer as noone has ever argued that a low "-c" was
>prefered (that I've seen).

I can think of one case:  For small filesystems, I often reduce "-c"
to ensure that there are at least 2 cylinder groups (in case one
superblock gets corrupted).  Where there are only 2-3 CG's, I might
juggle "-c" and the slice size to make the last CG the same size as
the other CGs.

Peter

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