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To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems 
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:04:34 +0200."
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Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:36:33 -0800
From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
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I am of the opinion that we should default to 16K/2K for most
filesystems today. I believe that the change should be in newfs. 

	Kirk McKusick

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