Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1
Arthur Chance
freebsd at qeng-ho.org
Tue Nov 13 14:42:29 UTC 2012
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:fragment ratio is 8:1. Other ratios are possible, but
are not recommended, and may produce poor results.
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