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Subject: Re: Possible (or smart) to put freebsd-boot on USB stick for
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From: Jason Birch <jbirch@jbirch.net>
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>
> In my head I thought it would work okay - 1064 512B blocks is a round 133
> 4KB blocks, which these SSDs report as their stripe size. Nonetheless,
> fragmentation of the pool is off the charts...
>

That being said, I did foolishly fill this thing to 80% with a quick dump
of another FS, so it's entirely possible my math is fine and things are
aligned, and I'm just seeing pathological behaviour of a nearly-full
copy-on-write file system.