Increase the maximum default ufs log size (ldl_maxlogsize) from 64 Mbytes to 512 Mbytes. [PSARC/2009/309 FastTrack timeout 05/25/2009]

[James Carlson]

Owen Roberts - Solaris Sustaining writes:
> A 256MB log should cover file systems that contain the number of cylinder
> groups seen up to 13TB in size, so would be more than sufficient for the
> majority of customers (and is the work around specified in sunalert 200854).
> There is also the possibility that users will specify their own geometry
> which would contain a greater number of cylinder groups than would be
> expected for that size of file system.
> 
> To cover those eventualities (> 13TB & non-default geometry) the log space 
> requirement based on the number of cylinder groups is calculated, and that
> can increase the log size allocated up to 512MB.

Ah, ok.  Thanks; that explains it well.

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