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32.Dd October 13, 2015
33.Dt NEWFS_LFS 8
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm newfs_lfs
37.Nd construct a new LFS file system
38.Sh SYNOPSIS
39.Nm
40.Op Ar newfs_lfs-options
41.Ar special
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43.Nm
44builds a log-structured file system on the specified special
45device basing its defaults on the information in the disk label.
46Before running
47.Nm
48the disk must be labeled using
49.Xr disklabel 8 ,
50the proper fstype is 4.4LFS.
51Reasonable values for the
52.Li fsize ,
53.Li bsize ,
54and
55.Li sgs
56fields are 1024, 8192, and 7 respectively.
57.Pp
58The following options define the general layout policies.
59.Bl -tag -width Fl
60.It Fl A
61Attempt to compute the appropriate segment size using the formula
62.Em 4 * bandwidth * access time .
63The disk is tested for twenty seconds
64to discover its bandwidth and seek time.
65.It Fl B Ar logical-segment-size
66The logical segment size of the file system in bytes.
67If not specified, the segment size is computed by left-shifting
68the partition label's block size by the amount indicated in the
69partition table's segshift.
70If the disklabel indicates a zero block size or segment shift,
71a compile-time default segment size of 1M is used.
72.It Fl b Ar block-size
73The block size of the file system in bytes.
74If not specified, the block size is taken from the partition label,
75or if the partition label indicates 0,
76a compile-time default of 8K is used.
77.It Fl F
78Force creation of an LFS even on a partition labeled as another type.
79.Nm
80will use compile-time default values for block and fragment size, and segment
81shift, unless these are overridden by command-line flags.
82.It Fl f Ar fragment-size
83The fragment size of the file system in bytes.
84If not specified, the fragment size is taken from the partition label,
85or if the partition label indicates 0,
86a compile-time default of 1K is used.
87.It Fl I Ar interleave
88Specify the interleave between segments.
89The default is zero.
90.It Fl i
91The size of an inode block, in bytes.
92The default is to use the same size as a fragment,
93or in a v1 filesystem, the same size as a data block.
94.It Fl L
95Create a log-structured file system (LFS).
96This is the default, and this
97option is provided for compatibility only.
98.It Fl M Ar nsegs
99Specify
100.Em lfs_minfreeseg ,
101the number of segments left out of the amount allocated to user data.
102A higher number increases cleaner performance, while a lower number
103gives more usable space.
104The default is based on the size of the filesystem, either 5% of the
105total number of segments or 20 segments, whichever is larger.
106.It Fl m Ar free space \&%
107The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum
108free space threshold.
109The default value used is 10%.
110.It Fl N
111Do not actually create the filesystem.
112.It Fl O Ar offset
113Start the first segment this many sectors from the beginning of the
114partition.
115The default is zero.
116.It Fl R Ar nsegs
117Specify
118.Em lfs_resvseg ,
119the number of segments set aside for the exclusive use of the cleaner.
120A larger figure reduces the likelihood of running out of clean segments,
121but if
122.Em lfs_resvseg
123is too close to
124.Em lfs_minfreeseg ,
125the cleaner will run without ceasing when the filesystem becomes close to
126full.
127The default is the larger of 15 or the quantity
128.Em lfs_minfreeseg
129/ 2 + 1 .
130.It Fl r Ar ident
131For a v2 filesystem, specify the roll-forward identifier for the
132filesystem.
133This identifier, a 32-bit numeric quantity,
134should be different from that of any LFS that may previously
135have existed on the same disk.
136By default the identifier is chosen at random.
137.It Fl s Ar size
138The size of the file system in sectors.
139.It Fl v Ar version
140Make a filesystem with the specified disk layout version.
141Valid options are 1 or 2 (the default).
142.Em Note ,
143however, that LFS version 1 is deprecated, and 64-bit volumes may not
144be version 1.
145.It Fl w Ar bitwidth
146Create a filesystem using the specified bit width: 32 or 64.
14732-bit LFS volumes are limited to 2TB in size; 64-bit LFS volumes are
148not, but incur additional overhead from having larger metadata
149structures.
150The default is 32-bit for volumes less than 1 TB, and 64-bit for
151larger volumes.
152.El
153.Sh SEE ALSO
154.Xr disktab 5 ,
155.\" .Xr fs 5 ,
156.Xr disklabel 8 ,
157.Xr diskpart 8 ,
158.Xr dumplfs 8
159.\" .Xr tunefs 8
160.Rs
161.%A M. Seltzer
162.%A K. Bostic
163.%A M. McKusick
164.%A C. Staelin
165.%T "An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX"
166.%J "Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conference"
167.%D January 25-29, 1993
168.%P pp. 315-331
169.Re
170.Rs
171.%A J. Matthews
172.%A D. Roselli
173.%A A. Costello
174.%A R. Wang
175.%A T. Anderson
176.%T "Improving the Performance of Log-Structured File Systems with Adaptive Methods"
177.%J "Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM SOSP"
178.%D October 1997
179.Re
180.Sh HISTORY
181A
182.Ic newlfs
183command appeared in
184.Bx 4.4 ,
185and was renamed to
186.Nm
187for
188.Nx 1.4 .
189