History log of /netbsd/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8 (Results 1 – 24 of 24)
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# c8459eb5 15-Oct-2015 dholland <dholland@NetBSD.org>

Enable the creation of lfs64 volumes.

To create an lfs64 volume, use -w 64. You can also force a 32-bit
volume with -w 32, but this will fail on devices thta are too large.

lfs64 is the default for

Enable the creation of lfs64 volumes.

To create an lfs64 volume, use -w 64. You can also force a 32-bit
volume with -w 32, but this will fail on devices thta are too large.

lfs64 is the default for devices > 1TB. (1TB rather than 2TB because
daddr_t is signed and negative block numbers can cause interesting
complications.)

For now print a warning that the lfs64 format isn't finalized, because
it isn't. For now any lfs64 use should be limited to test data,
benchmarking, and so forth.

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# 70aff99b 04-Jan-2014 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

New sentence, new line. Remove trailing whitespace.


# 32a51b5d 08-Apr-2009 joerg <joerg@NetBSD.org>

Fix markup.


# efc48a3b 04-May-2006 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

newfs_lfs(8) compoment of the recent superblock parameter addition. Change
the wording of the explanation of the -M option, detail a new -R option
that controls initial setting of the new parameter.


# 276d62f6 07-Aug-2003 agc <agc@NetBSD.org>

Move UCB-licensed code from 4-clause to 3-clause licence.

Patches provided by Joel Baker in PR 22308, verified by myself.


# 0cfa2c53 23-Feb-2003 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Discourage the creation of new LFSv1 filesystems.


# 2fb4b1db 01-Oct-2002 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

New sentence, new line. By Robert Elz with minimal fixes.


# 65c4d369 21-Jan-2002 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

Use mdoc macros instead of man ones.


# 39304f2b 16-Nov-2001 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

Punctuation fixes, sort SEE ALSO, use an mdoc macros instead of two man macros.


# 4ce43ae0 16-Nov-2001 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

Whitespace nits


# 44c196b3 08-Sep-2001 mason <mason@NetBSD.org>

The default version created by newfs_lfs without arguments is, in fact, 2.


# 4e3fced9 13-Jul-2001 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Merge the short-lived perseant-lfsv2 branch into the trunk.

Kernels and tools understand both v1 and v2 filesystems; newfs_lfs
generates v2 by default. Changes for the v2 layout include:

- Segment

Merge the short-lived perseant-lfsv2 branch into the trunk.

Kernels and tools understand both v1 and v2 filesystems; newfs_lfs
generates v2 by default. Changes for the v2 layout include:

- Segments of non-PO2 size and arbitrary block offset, so these can be
matched to convenient physical characteristics of the partition (e.g.,
stripe or track size and offset).

- Address by fragment instead of by disk sector, paving the way for
non-512-byte-sector devices. In theory fragments can be as large
as you like, though in reality they must be smaller than MAXBSIZE in size.

- Use serial number and filesystem identifier to ensure that roll-forward
doesn't get old data and think it's new. Roll-forward is enabled for
v2 filesystems, though not for v1 filesystems by default.

- The inode free list is now a tailq, paving the way for undelete (undelete
is not yet implemented, but can be without further non-backwards-compatible
changes to disk structures).

- Inode atime information is kept in the Ifile, instead of on the inode;
that is, the inode is never written *just* because atime was changed.
Because of this the inodes remain near the file data on the disk, rather
than wandering all over as the disk is read repeatedly. This speeds up
repeated reads by a small but noticeable amount.

Other changes of note include:

- The ifile written by newfs_lfs can now be of arbitrary length, it is no
longer restricted to a single indirect block.

- Fixed an old bug where ctime was changed every time a vnode was created.
I need to look more closely to make sure that the times are only updated
during write(2) and friends, not after-the-fact during a segment write,
and certainly not by the cleaner.

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# 73f545bb 05-Jun-2001 wiz <wiz@NetBSD.org>

Drop arguments of .Os.


# 8a3e9fdf 05-Dec-2000 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Add "-A" option to autoconfigure the segment size based on measured
bandwidth and seek time of the disk, using the "4 * bandwidth * seek
time" formula from Neefe-Matthews' 1997 paper. An RZ25 disk w

Add "-A" option to autoconfigure the segment size based on measured
bandwidth and seek time of the disk, using the "4 * bandwidth * seek
time" formula from Neefe-Matthews' 1997 paper. An RZ25 disk with this
option gets 200K segments. Reference the paper in the manual page.

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# 1320b80b 08-Nov-2000 hubertf <hubertf@NetBSD.org>

xref lfs_cleanerd(8) in SEE ALSO


# 4fdbe215 08-Nov-2000 hubertf <hubertf@NetBSD.org>

In SEE ALSO:
* it's dump_lfs(8), not dumplfs(8)
* xref mount_lfs(8)


# 48d7c317 04-Jul-2000 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Tweak how lfs_avail is initialized, corresponding to changes in the
kernel.

Don't make more superblock segments than we have a record of in
the superblock; and print these out as we go, like newfs.

Tweak how lfs_avail is initialized, corresponding to changes in the
kernel.

Don't make more superblock segments than we have a record of in
the superblock; and print these out as we go, like newfs.

Add am "-M" flag to specify the number of reserved segments, with a note
in the man page not to use it.

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# 42bce177 12-Feb-2000 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Add -F flag to override newfs_lfs' preference for 4.4LFS-labelled partitions.


# 3fb18954 05-Feb-2000 enami <enami@NetBSD.org>

- The -B flag should be followed by logical segment size.
- Remove unnecessary comma at the end of SEE ALSO list.


# 43a7fde6 18-Jan-2000 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

newfs_lfs now recognizes a zero p_sgs field to mean "use the default segment
size" (for consistency with bsize/fsize, and since segment size == block
size is never a valid combination).

Updated the

newfs_lfs now recognizes a zero p_sgs field to mean "use the default segment
size" (for consistency with bsize/fsize, and since segment size == block
size is never a valid combination).

Updated the man page to include explicit reasonable values for fsize, bsize,
and sgs, at suggestion from Hubert Feyrer.

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# f1dfdc69 18-Jan-2000 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

disklabel now understands the p_sgs partition field (shift to compute
segment size from block size).

newfs_lfs now reads the disklabel to find segment, block, and fragment
sizes. Because reading th

disklabel now understands the p_sgs partition field (shift to compute
segment size from block size).

newfs_lfs now reads the disklabel to find segment, block, and fragment
sizes. Because reading this info from the wrong fs type could result in
very poor fs layout (e.g. ffs has "16" where the segshift would go,
resulting in 512-*megabyte* segments for 8K blocks), newfs_lfs refuses
to create a filesystem on a partition not labeled "4.4LFS".

Man pages for newfs_lfs updated to reflect this change.

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# 54713442 16-Jan-2000 hubertf <hubertf@NetBSD.org>

Document the proper fstype for LFS. (If the "default" 4.2BSD is used,
newfs_lfs runs fine, but I get hangs when writing to the disk)


# 7fa66164 15-Jul-1999 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Address PR 7412: fix newfs_lfs.8 to list all real options for newfs_lfs;
also fix newfs_lfs to get rid of all sorts of useless options that applied
only to newfs_ffs. Corrected reference to the FFS

Address PR 7412: fix newfs_lfs.8 to list all real options for newfs_lfs;
also fix newfs_lfs to get rid of all sorts of useless options that applied
only to newfs_ffs. Corrected reference to the FFS paper to the reference
to the BSD-LFS paper.

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# 0a849c91 18-Mar-1999 perseant <perseant@NetBSD.org>

Change name of newlfs to newfs_lfs.