3TB disc and block alignment

Victor Balada Diaz victor at bsdes.net
Mon Feb 21 14:53:23 UTC 2011


On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 07:38:19PM +0700, Edho P Arief wrote:
> UFS:
> 
> >>>create GPT
> # gpart create -s gpt da0
> >>>create partition, with start position 4k-aligned
> # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -b 1024 -l mydata da0
> >>>default newfs is good enough
> # newfs -U /dev/gpt/mydata
> 
> 
> corrections welcome.

Hello,

I guess that you would get better performance if you also add to newfs
-f 4096 -b 32768 but i don't have hard numbers to prove it.

Regards.

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