Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/13/12 14:21, Arthur Chance wrote: Oops, sent this off too quickly. I wrote that. It's only relevant if you have recent disks with 4k hardware blocks. If you have, you ought to use 4k/16k filesystems whatever your OS rev. That should be 4k/32k. As "man newfs" says: The optimal block:fra

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Arthur Chance
On 11/13/12 13:00, Leslie Jensen wrote: I just read in another post about disklayout _ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k al

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Fbsd8
Leslie Jensen wrote: I just read in another post about disklayout _ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything S

Re: Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:00:15 +0100 Leslie Jensen wrote: > > I just read in another post about disklayout > _ > According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment > and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided y

Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

2012-11-13 Thread Leslie Jensen
I just read in another post about disklayout _ According to the manual as of 9.0-RELEASE the default fragment and block sizes for newfs are 4k and 32k, so provided your partitions/slices are 4k aligned everything Should Just Work. Befo