Maximum blocksize for FFS?

[Olivier Cochard-Labbé]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Kirk McKusick <mckusick at mckusick.com> wrote:
> The default blocksize in FreeBSD 9.0 is 32K/4K. We have been
> running with this size in -current for a almost a year with no
> reported problems.

Hi,

There is a reported problem:
The number of inode was divided by two with FreeBSD 9.0 (PR
bin/162659) and this create some problems because "the number of
fragments per inode (NFPI) was not adapted to the new default block
size" (Bruce Evans'explanation [1]).

Regards,

Olivier

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2011-December/046713.html