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Date:      Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:41:26 +0200
From:      Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Status of support for 4KB disk sectors
Message-ID:  <20110719224126.00000a25@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <20110718234124.GA5626@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <CAN6yY1uaUqk2ifiNViJyMFJWf60a4DmCiVs3Z=--_TjtzseABQ@mail.gmail.com> <20110718234124.GA5626@icarus.home.lan>

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On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick
<freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> wrote:

> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8).  Here's an
> example:
> 
> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/
> 
> Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under the impression the exact same is
> needed for FFS/UFS.

Info: gnop will not work for FFS/UFS because gnop is a temporary
solution (needs to be done by hand at each reboot). For FFS/UFS you
need to align the slice/partition and chose a good blocksize/fragsize
combination (e.g. 32k/4k).

Bye,
Alexander.

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