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From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: UFS2 now the default creation type on 5.0-CURRENT
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003, Peter Schultz wrote:
> UFS2 is 64bit, allowing it to work with massive hard drives.  I don't 
> know if it's true, but UFS2 may be faster if you're working with really 
> massive files.

UFS2 has the potential to be faster for really large files by
using jumbo blocks, but the code to do that has yet to be written.