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From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>
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Subject: Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE
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     On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:06:45 +0100 "no@spam@mgEDV.net" <nospam@mgedv.net>
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>> Subject: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE
>things i ran into with GELI/UFS2+S:
>- geli partition sector size larger than 4KB caused panics on one of our 
>boxes

     Ah.  Okay.  I had set it to 8 KB for better performance.  I'll try
it again with it set to 4 KB.

>- fs sector size any than 512 sometimes caused hangs/watchdog reboots
>try setting up a kernel with debug-flags and integrated debugger
>(see ddb(4)) to catch a panic and get a backtrace if there's any. 
>
     Well, that's a hardware "feature" I can't change.  AFAIK, it's stuck
at 512 bytes/sector on the drive in question.


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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