:What's the recommended way to reduce the number of cylinder groups a bit?
:-c's maximum limit is affected by combinations of -b and -i, possibly some
:others.  PHK was talking about new, more sensible values for filesystem
:parameters, but I don't know what happened.  I just think it's a bit silly
:to go generating hundreds of cg's for a 34GB unit...  and this _with_ the
:max -c setting of 26 (for this fs).
:
:/dev/vinum/rn8: 63700992 sectors in 15552 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
:        31104.0MB in 599 cyl groups (26 c/g, 52.00MB/g, 256 i/g)
:super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
: 32, 106528, 213024, 319520, 426016, 532512, 639008, 745504, 852000, 958496,
:
:... Joe
:
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:Joe Greco - Systems Administrator                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]

    Well, -i doesn't effect c/g any where near as much as -b does.  Try
    bumping the block size up to 16K and use '-c 999' and see what newfs
    tells you the max c/g is.  -b 16384 -f 2048 -c 999.  On my test it let
    me do 89 c/g.

    As we already know, non-standard block sizes will create problems under
    stable and may create them under current.  I believe I have fixed the
    bugs under current (in getnewbuf()) but since no comprehensive testing
    has been done you still have a lockup risk.  Work on the VM system 
    mainly by Luoqi a few months ago fixed the buffer corruption bugs,
    so only lockup bugs should be left.

                                        -Matt
                                        Matthew Dillon 
                                        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


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