Attachment 115577 Details for Bug 157354 – sbin.newfs.8.diff

[patch] sbin.newfs.8.diff

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Created: 2011-05-26 21:10:04 UTC

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>Index: newfs.8
>===================================================================
>--- newfs.8	(revision 222288)
>+++ newfs.8	(working copy)
>@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> .\"     @(#)newfs.8	8.6 (Berkeley) 5/3/95
> .\" $FreeBSD$
> .\"
>-.Dd February 22, 2011
>+.Dd May 26, 2011
> .Dt NEWFS 8
> .Os
> .Sh NAME
>@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
> The block size of the file system, in bytes.
> It must be a power of 2.
> The
>-default size is 16384 bytes, and the smallest allowable size is 4096 bytes.
>+default size is 32768 bytes, and the smallest allowable size is 4096 bytes.
> The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1.
> Other ratios are possible, but are not recommended,
> and may produce poor results.
>@@ -143,7 +143,9 @@
> .Ar blocksize Ns /8
> and
> .Ar blocksize .
>-The default is 2048 bytes.
>+The default is 4096 bytes.
>+Having a lower size will result in poor performance with modern disks utilizing
>+4096 byte sectors.
> .It Fl g Ar avgfilesize
> The expected average file size for the file system.
> .It Fl h Ar avgfpdir
>@@ -279,11 +281,8 @@
> .Pa ad3s1a .
> The
> .Nm
>-utility will use a block size of 16384 bytes, a fragment size of 2048 bytes
>+utility will use a block size of 32768 bytes, a fragment size of 4096 bytes
> and the largest possible number of blocks per cylinders group.
>-These values tend to produce better performance for most applications
>-than the historical defaults
>-(8192 byte block size and 1024 byte fragment size).
> This large fragment size may lead to much wasted space
> on file systems that contain many small files.
> .Sh SEE ALSO

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