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| author | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-02-05 08:42:31 +0000 |
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| committer | phk <phk@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-02-05 08:42:31 +0000 |
| commit | f3be06362e15485bfadbf6514eecbfc8e83285ce (patch) | |
| tree | c44b0d96ecc9b08f3c6e2bb7ec8dc5c030af3fc2 /sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | |
| parent | 5131cd5fd6f1a5d9c9b5b0289a6b306bb02bc390 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-f3be06362e15485bfadbf6514eecbfc8e83285ce.zip FreeBSD-src-f3be06362e15485bfadbf6514eecbfc8e83285ce.tar.gz | |
Change the defaults for newfs to disregard the geometry in the disklabel.
We pretend we have one head with two megabyte worth of sectors per cylinder.
The code try to access another head in what it belives to the same
physical cylinder, because it belives that it would be faster than
waiting for the next free sector under this head to come around.
Most modern drives doesn't have a "classical" geometry, and thus
we end up fooling ourselves doing the above optimization. With this
change we will fill a cylinder sequentially if we can, and thus get
much more mileage from the track-buffer/cache built into the drives.
As a result a lot of seeks to the next or previous track should be
avoided by this.
(My disk is a lot less noisy actually...)
You can still get the old behaviour, by specifying zero for the
numbers.
This will also solve the problem with newfs barfing at really big
drives.
Obtained from: adult advice from Kirk.
Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/newfs/newfs.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | sbin/newfs/newfs.8 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 index e342516..5ab5a59 100644 --- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 +++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 @@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ or the disk must be labeled using .Xr disklabel 8 . .Nm Newfs -builds a file system on the specified special device -basing its defaults on the information in the disk label. +builds a file system on the specified special device. Typically the defaults are reasonable, however .Nm newfs has numerous options to allow the defaults to be selectively overridden. @@ -232,9 +231,13 @@ The speed of the disk in revolutions per minute. .It Fl t Ar #tracks/cylinder The number of tracks/cylinder available for data allocation by the file system. +The default is 1. +If zero is specified, the value from the disklabel will be used. .It Fl u Ar sectors/track The number of sectors per track available for data allocation by the file system. +The default is 4096. +If zero is specified, the value from the disklabel will be used. This does not include sectors reserved at the end of each track for bad block replacement (see the .Fl p |
