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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:42:39 +0100 (CET)
From:      Christian Baer <christian.baer@informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To:        freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: geli(8) makes more room on drive
Message-ID:  <duh77f$uv8$4@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net>
References:  <duh2n7$uv8$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <20060306110924.GB53437@garage.freebsd.pl>

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:09:24 +0100 Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:

> Geli's provider (ad10s1d.eli) uses bigger sector (4096 bytes instead of
> 512 bytes), which makes newfs to configure file system a bit different.
> You can also observe smaller number of cylinder groups, etc.

Would it be a good idea to reduce the sector size on the provider to 512
so as to fit the drive? Or would this just increase the overhead? Does
newfs create gigantic frag-sizes as a result?

Regards
Chris




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