On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger >> <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: >> > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick >> > <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: >> > >> >> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). ?Here's an >> >> example: >> >> >> >> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/ >> >> >> >> Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under the impression the exact same is >> >> needed for FFS/UFS. >> > >> > Info: gnop will not work for FFS/UFS because gnop is a temporary >> > solution (needs to be done by hand at each reboot). For FFS/UFS you >> > need to align the slice/partition and chose a good blocksize/fragsize >> > combination (e.g. 32k/4k). >> > >> > Bye, >> > Alexander. >> > >> > -- >> > http://www.Leidinger.net ? ?Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 >> > http://www.FreeBSD.org ? ? ? netchild @ FreeBSD.org ?: PGP ID = 72077137 >> > >> >> Thanks, Alexander. >> >> This is what I had expected after reading the man pages, though I >> would think -b 65560 -f 8192' would be a bit more reasonable in this > ^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^
> Where did this number come from? Did you mean 65536? 65560 would not > be properly aligned. Ack! Fingers and brain out of sync. Yes, 65536 is what I meant. >> day of bloated file formats. it's been years since I have hit a >> problem with lack of inodes. Probably around 1993 on an old >> SparcStation 1 running SunOS and then only due to a bad assumption I >> made when 'newfs'ing it. >> >> Again, thanks for the advice. At very least it will save me a bit of time! > > Agreed -- thanks for the advice, Alexander. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | > > -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer - Retired E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"