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>>>>> "PK" == Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:


PK> I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet.

PK> I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragment myself.

At what file system size do you recommend bumping the block size?

I've got a 226Gb RAID array and right now it is using the default
newfs parameters.  The intended use is for the postgres data directory
(ie, fair number of relatively large files).

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