On 22 July 2015 at 12:36, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > 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.
I have thought of that. An alternative would be to make all version 6 volumes be 4096-byte sector devices and thus eliminate the "can I rebuild using this 4K disk or not?" question. .... Ken
