Does "newfs -i 1024" do anyting on SunOS4.x?
Rich Salz
rsalz at bbn.com
Wed Nov 22 06:52:29 AEST 1989
In <3115 at brazos.Rice.edu> rsalz at bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:
>I tried "newfs -i 1600 /dev/rxy1g" hoping to get about 30% more and I
>still only got 24.5K.
Some replies came in before I even saw my message. Best reply was from
Don Speck <mangler at csvax.caltech.edu>:
There's a limit of 2048 inodes per cylinder group. You're probably
using a disk with big cylinders. Try "-c 8". Also consider reducing
the fragment size to 512 bytes if you're going to have so many tiny
files.
Thanks also to maria a barnum <barnum at grumpy.crd.ge.com>.
Summary: RTFM, where RTFM is the paper on the 4.2BSD filesystem.
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