File system blocks alignment

[Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)]

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Pieter de Goeje <pieter at degoeje.nl> writes:
>> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>>> Ideally, newfs/UFS should do a quick test to look for any obvious
>>> boundaries, and DTRT, a nice little task for somebody :-)
>> A search for the offset for which newfs (or a simpler test) runs
>> fastest?  Interesting idea :-)
> 
> Or just default to 4 kB or even 8 kB, which has zero performance impact
> (either way) for disks with 512 B sectors.

I'd like it to be tunable. Makes life so much easier for those of us who
run raid controllers with adjustable stripe sizes. ;)

//Svein

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