Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:35:48 -0600 (CST) From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us> To: Dan Carroll <fbsd@dannysplace.net> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS With Gpart partitions Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.2.01.1201031934290.15666@freddy.simplesystems.org> In-Reply-To: <4F039470.9010405@dannysplace.net> References: <4F003EB8.6080006@dannysplace.net> <CALfReyfvOCMpBdndf7UYydmGnUqt2cBYWdhYXaOANbQ_CFHoVA@mail.gmail.com> <4F02FC42.1040103@dannysplace.net> <4F0311F2.7050209@brockmann-consult.de> <4F0312DF.8050004@brockmann-consult.de> <20120103162428.GA18661@icarus.home.lan> <CALfReyc11ZriFPZmm15YwS5VeA1P4Epub1vyZM%2BfC8X2X0_mHw@mail.gmail.com> <4F039470.9010405@dannysplace.net>
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On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Dan Carroll wrote: > > Actually that does make sense. 99% of my files on this volume (office data > / media server) will be larger than 4k anyway so I guess there is nothing to > lose by aligning to a 4k boundry *and* asking ZFS to use 4k block size. Except that each file has at least two metadata blocks and these will increase to 4k in size. If the typical file size was 8K, then this would represent almost 100% waste. Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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