What about new blocks written to an existing file?

Perhaps we could make that clearer in the manpage too...

hm.


Mattias Pantzare wrote:
>>  >
>>  > If you created them after, then no worries, but if I understand
>>  > correctly, if the *file* was created with 128K recordsize, then it'll
>>  > keep that forever...
>>
>>
>> Files have nothing to do with it.  The recordsize is a file system
>>  parameter.  It gets a little more complicated because the recordsize
>>  is actually the maximum recordsize, not the minimum.
> 
> Please read the manpage:
> 
>          Changing the file system's recordsize only affects files
>          created afterward; existing files are unaffected.
> 
> Nothing is rewritten in the file system when you change recordsize so
> is stays the same for existing files.
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