Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/newfs
To: David Laight <dsl@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/10/2006 19:36:32
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On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 08:59:25PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> There really isn't any point reporting all the alternate superblocks,
> big filesystems can have thousands of them - no one ever writes them down.
> After the first line of numbers just output a '.' for each cylinder group.

I object. The dots don't tell me much useful about progress;
previously I could watch the superblock numbers grow and approach the
number of blocks in the filesystem.

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Dan.

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