File system blocks alignment

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Wed Jan 6 10:48:43 UTC 2010


Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> writes:
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > Ideally, newfs/UFS should do a quick test to look for any obvious
> > boundaries, and DTRT, a nice little task for somebody :-)
> A search for the offset for which newfs (or a simpler test) runs
> fastest?  Interesting idea :-)

Or just default to 4 kB or even 8 kB, which has zero performance impact
(either way) for disks with 512 B sectors.

DES
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