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Subject: BUG: REL 9.0 - MD malloc of custom sector size
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man mdconfig=0D=0A----=0D=0A-S sectorsize to use for malloc backed =
device=0D=0A----=0D=0A=0D=0AI want to create MD device, with sector size =
of 4 Kb.=0D=0A=0D=0AIt is CRITICAL to NOT append ANY suffixes, when =
specifing size, via '-s' flag in order to use sectors, to set it's =
size.=0D=0A# mdconfig -a -t malloc -S 4096 -s 32768=0D=0A=0D=0AThis =
should created dev of 128 Mb in size.=0D=0A32768 sectors * 4 Kb each =3D =
131072 Kb =3D 128 Mb=0D=0ANot! It created dev of 16 Mb in size, because =
sector size remained at 512 bytes.=0D=0A=0D=0AAnd look what 'diskinfo' =
has to say/lie ...=0D=0A# diskinfo -v md0=0D=0Amd0=0D=0A        4096      =
      # sectorsize=0D=0A        16777216        # mediasize in bytes =
(16M)=0D=0A        4096            # mediasize in sectors=0D=0A        0  =
             # stripesize=0D=0A        0               # =
stripeoffset=0D=0A=0D=0AFalse lines:=0D=0A  # sectorsize=0D=0A  # =
mediasize in sectors (doesn't match '-s 32768')=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0ADoes =
anyone has any advice of creating image / file(vnode) of custom sector =
sizes (2k, 4k, 8k)=0D=0AThanks in advance.=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0ADomagoj =
Smol=E8i=E6