ATA 4K sector issues

Thiago Damas tdamas at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 23:23:11 UTC 2010


Waste of disk space. With 2K frag size, a file of 1k will use a
minimum of 2K, wasting 1k. With 4k frag size it will waste 3k.

2010/3/17, Andrew Stesin <stesin at gmail.com>:
> 2010/3/17 Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com>:
>>    you absolutely must use a 4K fragment size (32K block size) and an
>>    aligned partition when using UFS with 4K physical sector drives.
>
> Sorry for my ignorance, but what's wrong with making this the default
> setting for newfs regardless of whatever the drive is?
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
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