On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:33:27PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Alexander Leidinger > <alexan...@leidinger.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:41:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick > > <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > > > >> But the currently "known method" is to use gnop(8). ?Here's an > >> example: > >> > >> http://www.leidinger.net/blog/2011/05/03/another-root-on-zfs-howto-optimized-for-4k-sector-drives/ > >> > >> Now, that's for ZFS, but I'm under the impression the exact same is > >> needed for FFS/UFS. > > > > Info: gnop will not work for FFS/UFS because gnop is a temporary > > solution (needs to be done by hand at each reboot). For FFS/UFS you > > need to align the slice/partition and chose a good blocksize/fragsize > > combination (e.g. 32k/4k). > > > > Bye, > > Alexander. > > > > -- > > http://www.Leidinger.net ? ?Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 > > http://www.FreeBSD.org ? ? ? netchild @ FreeBSD.org ?: PGP ID = 72077137 > > > > Thanks, Alexander. > > This is what I had expected after reading the man pages, though I > would think -b 65560 -f 8192' would be a bit more reasonable in this ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^
Where did this number come from? Did you mean 65536? 65560 would not be properly aligned. > day of bloated file formats. it's been years since I have hit a > problem with lack of inodes. Probably around 1993 on an old > SparcStation 1 running SunOS and then only due to a bad assumption I > made when 'newfs'ing it. > > Again, thanks for the advice. At very least it will save me a bit of time! Agreed -- thanks for the advice, Alexander. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"