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Diffstat (limited to 'sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t')
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diff --git a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t index ff3aff813f1..faacce041aa 100644 --- a/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t +++ b/sbin/fsck_ffs/SMM.doc/2.t @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: 2.t,v 1.4 2003/06/02 20:06:15 millert Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: 2.t,v 1.5 2005/02/02 04:36:56 jaredy Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: 2.t,v 1.2 1995/03/18 14:56:08 cgd Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1982, 1993 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ and summary information describing the usage of data blocks within the cylinder group. A fixed number of inodes is allocated for each cylinder group when the file system is created. -The current policy is to allocate one inode for each 2048 +The current policy is to allocate one inode for every 2048 bytes of disk space; this is expected to be far more inodes than will ever be needed. .PP @@ -231,8 +231,8 @@ The disk information is updated to reflect the in-core information when the buffer is required for another use, when a .I sync (2) -is done (at 30 second intervals) by -.I "/etc/update" "(8)," +is done (which happens automatically at 30 second intervals through +a kernel thread), or by manual operator intervention with the .I sync (8) command. @@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ The problem with asynchronous inode updates can be avoided by doing all inode deallocations synchronously. Consequently, inodes and indirect blocks are written to the disk synchronously -(\fIi.e.\fP the process blocks until the information is +(i.e. the process blocks until the information is really written to disk) when they are being deallocated. -Similarly inodes are kept consistent by synchronously +Similarly, inodes are kept consistent by synchronously deleting, adding, or changing directory entries. .ds RH Fixing corrupted file systems |