Some thoughts about upgrading from 8.3 to 9.1

[Arthur Chance]

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.