Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > CAVEAT: The metadata version has changed so new volumes you create > will not be loadable on boxes running older versions of OpenBSD. > > CAVEAT: You can't rebuild a volume created with *only* 512-byte > devices onto a 4K-sector device. The volume must be created with > at least one 4K device to start with.
given these two caveats, is it reasonable to continue using the old metadata format for 512 byte arrays? perhaps for some time anwyay.