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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:50:05 +0100
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
Subject:   Re: Maximum blocksize for FFS?
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bq%2BTcrZeO6-Xj32aXpwP1HTJv0BrUdRYmjN5=3Vw54i4rs92A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201112131818.pBDIIlPm071707@chez.mckusick.com>
References:  <20111213091457.GU50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <201112131818.pBDIIlPm071707@chez.mckusick.com>

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On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com> wrote:
> The default blocksize in FreeBSD 9.0 is 32K/4K. We have been
> running with this size in -current for a almost a year with no
> reported problems.

Hi,

There is a reported problem:
The number of inode was divided by two with FreeBSD 9.0 (PR
bin/162659) and this create some problems because "the number of
fragments per inode (NFPI) was not adapted to the new default block
size" (Bruce Evans'explanation [1]).

Regards,

Olivier

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2011-December/046713.html



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