geli(8) makes more room on drive

Christian Baer christian.baer at informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Mar 6 03:51:28 PST 2006


On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:09:24 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Geli's provider (ad10s1d.eli) uses bigger sector (4096 bytes instead of
> 512 bytes), which makes newfs to configure file system a bit different.
> You can also observe smaller number of cylinder groups, etc.

Would it be a good idea to reduce the sector size on the provider to 512
so as to fit the drive? Or would this just increase the overhead? Does
newfs create gigantic frag-sizes as a result?

Regards
Chris



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