increasing the number of inodes on RZ58

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From: Andy Sun
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 15:43

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Hi Everyone,

Not long ago someone posted something on how newfs and mkfs ignore
the inode option (-i) and apprently this problem has existed for a long
time. Then someone from DEC respond as follows: 

>From: schedler@src.dec.com (Richard Schedler)
>Subject: Re: Will DEC ever fix newfs/mkfs ??
>
>Maybe this will help with your news partitions; it's what I use:
>
>    newfs -v -n -i 512 -b 4096 -f 512 -c 8 /dev/rrz1c rz58
>
>This will give you 512 bytes per inode, 4k blocks and 512 byte fragments.
>The trick it to decrease the number of cylinders per group to 8.  

Does anybody know if there's any side-effect in doing the above? Or
can someone provide me with pointers to any reference material? We have
an RZ58 with /dev/rz1g as the news partition. Before I blindly follow
the above, I would like to know the mechanism to arrive at the above
numbers. I did mailed to Richard on this but hasn't heard back from him.
Any help will be greatly appreicated.

Andy
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Subject: increasing the number of inodes on RZ58
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