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Date:      Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:54:58 +0100
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: memstick.img is bloated with 7% 2K blocks of nulls 
Message-ID:  <201102120055.p1C0swnC069033@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:22:27 GMT." <20110211192227.00002188@unknown> 

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Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:09:30 +0100
> "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> wrote:
> 
> > memstick.img wastes 7% with 2K blocks of nulls.
> 
> Could this be due to using UFS1 instead of UFS2?

Don't know, Looking:
8.1 /usr/src/release/scripts/make-memstick.sh
man makefs
	-t fs-type ... The following file system
           types are supported:
                 ffs  BSD fast file system (default).
	....
	FFS-specific options
	....
	version       UFS version. 1 for FFS (default), 2 for UFS2

/usr/src/release/Makefile -->
  scripts/doFS.sh:
	newfs -i ${FSINODE} -o space -m 0 /dev/r${VNDEVICE}c
	...
	newfs -O1 -b 4096 -f 512 -i ${FSINODE} -o space -m 0 /dev/${MDDEVICE}
  man newfs:
	 -O filesystem-type
             Use 1 to specify that a UFS1 format file system be built; use 2
             to specify that a UFS2 format file system be built.  The default
             format is UFS2.
If anyone fancies looking deeper, please do :-)

Cheers,
Julian
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