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Date:      Thu, 17 Jan 2002 13:50:04 -0800 (PST)
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/33941: /usr/sbin/dev_mkdb dumps core 
Message-ID:  <200201172150.g0HLo4a91357@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/33941; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc: Ryan Dooley <dooleyr@missouri.edu>, 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.

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