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Date:      Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:20:01 -0700
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org>
To:        Per Kristian Hove <Per.Hove@math.ntnu.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geom_vol_ffs problems
Message-ID:  <20030606182001.GJ691@roark.gnf.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.52.0306061813000.17732@abel.math.ntnu.no>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.52.0306041435020.6491@abel.math.ntnu.no> <Pine.GSO.4.52.0306061813000.17732@abel.math.ntnu.no>

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On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 07:38:36PM +0200, Per Kristian Hove wrote:
> I've nailed it down to this: geom_vol_ffs assumes that a file system
> is able to fill the partition completely. That's not a valid
> assumption, since the file system size is a multiple of the file
> system block size (in my case 16k bytes = 32 blocks), and the
> partition size is/should be a multiple of the sectors/cylinder count
> (in my case 1008).

Thanks for doing this analysis. I've run into the same thing here at
work but I just haven't had any time to debug it. I'll see if I can
work something up that'll address this problem.

-gordon

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