filesystem size after newfs

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 12 22:18:29 UTC 2009


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:15:05PM +0000, Naeem Afzal wrote:
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> Block size is set to 4K, did you mean fragment size should be 4K too? Are you saying that for each block of 512b there is 32b for space consumed for hash? Is this only when using authentication algorithm?

The block size I was talking about is the one given by -s option to
'geli init'. If authentication is turned off there is no space overhead
except for 512 bytes for metadata.

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