Writing contigiously to UFS2?

[Ivan Voras]

Eric Anderson wrote:

> The largest file size per chunk in a cylinder group is calculated at 
> newfs time, which determines also how many cylinder groups there should 
> be.  I think the largest size I've seen was something in the 460MB-ish 
> range, meaning any contiguous write above that would span more than one 
> cylinder group.

Hmm, how did you manage to create a file system with such large cylinder 
groups? I've experimented with smallnum-TB file systems and still 
couldn't make them larger than around 190 MB (though I wasn't actively 
trying, just observed how they turned out).



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