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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:16:09 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reducing the size of the ports tree (brainstorm v2)
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.11.1411041608200.91469@wonkity.com>
In-Reply-To: <14d0c0b9ee9ca31877d43a3c29481717@ultimatedns.net>
References:  <20141031185621.GC15967@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <54573B31.7080809@gmx.de>, <20141103212438.0893c3dc@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> <14d0c0b9ee9ca31877d43a3c29481717@ultimatedns.net>

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote:

> gpart(8) -a gives you what you need. If it's truly as bad as all that,
> mounting the ports tree on a 512k aligned slice will reduce the "slack"
> you appear to be referring to. zfs(8) also has this ability.

Not alignment, but filesystem block size.  But that can only be set for 
an entire filesystem, and it's a tradeoff.



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