From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jan 17 13:50:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3852537B404 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0HLo4a91357; Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200201172150.g0HLo4a91357@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: bin/33941: /usr/sbin/dev_mkdb dumps core Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/33941; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Sheldon Hearn To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Ryan Dooley , bug-followup@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/33941: /usr/sbin/dev_mkdb dumps core Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 23:48:43 +0200 On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:41:53 PST, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It should work fine as long as the filesystem frag ratio is 8:1. The > buffer cache is optimized for 16384 byte buffers and can become > fragmented if larger block sizes are used, leading to inefficient > operation, but should have no other adverse effects. Okay, so there are no nasty surprises beyond what's already documented in newfs(8) and tuning(7). Sorry for the false alarm, Ryan. Back to the drawing board on trying to find your problem. It'd be interesting to see whether the problematic box makes it through a buildworld without any problems. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message