setting ipg > MAXIPG on a filesystem?

David Paul Zimmerman dpz at action.rutgers.edu
Thu Dec 27 12:35:46 AEST 1990


What we generally do here is to skirt the problem by mkfs'ing a smaller number
of cylinders per cylinder group (-c flag to mkfs on SunOS).  For example, if
the standard is 16 cpg, we use 12 or 8 or even 4.  (My own news spool system
uses 12.)

						David
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David Paul Zimmerman                                     dpz at dimacs.rutgers.edu
Systems Programmer						    rutgers!dpz
Rutgers Univ Center for Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)



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