On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:53:01AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     You can also reduce fsck time by reducing the number of cylinder
>     groups on the disk.  I usually max them out (-c 999 and newfs then
>     sets it to the maximum, usually in the 50-80 range).  This will
>     improve performance but not reduce the memory required.

Note that this advice is relevant for UFS1 only.  In UFS2, '-c'
specifies the cylinder group size in _BLOCKS_ not cylinders and
defaults to the maximum size for the given blocksize and IPG etc.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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