On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 06:50:33PM -0500, Dieter BSD wrote:
> Many recent disks have a 4KiB sector size, so newfs's default
> 2KiB frag size seems suboptimal for these drives. Newfs's man
> page states: "The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1. Other
> ratios are possible, but are not recommended,
Many recent disks have a 4KiB sector size, so newfs's default
2KiB frag size seems suboptimal for these drives. Newfs's man
page states: "The optimal block:fragment ratio is 8:1. Other
ratios are possible, but are not recommended, and may produce
poor results." (It is not clear to me what the 8:1