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- From: jch@rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
- Subject: Re: Will DEC ever fix newfs/mkfs ??
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.080211.22542@rdg.dec.com>
- Sender: news@rdg.dec.com (Mr News)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Jul27.020441.25308@kirk.bu.oz.au> <1992Jul27.051959.26668@src.dec.com> <1992Jul27.061542.15761@kirk.bu.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:02:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.061542.15761@kirk.bu.oz.au>, bambi@bu.oz.au (David J. Hughes) writes:
- |> schedler@src.dec.com (Richard Schedler) writes:
- |> Yup, I know. I had a look at the old 3.0 sources to see how the number
- |> of inodes was calculated. You must admit though, if the manual says you
- |> can change it using a particular option, it would be nice if it worked.
- |> Stuffing around with cylinder group sizes doesn't help the person who
- |> either 1) has no idea what that implies, or 2) doesn't have the sources
- |> to figure out what's going on.
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- When we had to sort this out, I pulled down the Supplementary Docs, vol III,
- and looked at the file system paper. It tells you the whys and wherefores of
- the file system. It also tells you why you can't use the inode ration to
- calculate the number of cylinders per cylinder group (well, you can, but it doesn't
- make much sense).
-
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