On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 10:14:16AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> information in the disk label is not binding.  I'd strongly advise
> against a 2048 byte block size, though; it buys you nothing in
> comparison with a 4096 byte block size, but it can result in
> marginally reduced performance.  In general, unless you have a very
> good reason, stick to the default 16k/2k block and frag sizes.

Isn't block size (-b) different from bytes-per-inode (-i) ?
Or am I confused?. BTW, after doing some google-ing, I settled
for newfs -v -i 4096 (only for the partition where I saved mails)
Others use newfs -v with the default settings.

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