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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [BUG?] newfs with bsize = 16 kb ?
Date: 25 Oct 1993 12:05:31 +0100
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In article <1993Oct23.193511.18122@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>, wiserner@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernd Wiserner) writes:
|> the write performance I increased the bsize-field in my disklabel first to
|> 8 kb and then to 16kb . With 8 kb everything was Ok. but then I tried
|> to make a newfs -o0 -l1 -r4500 /dev/sd1e on the disk ( bsize was 16 kb ).
[...]

I, too, tried to increse the blocksize of the filesystem to 16k (and 16k
fragments) - to no avail. If I recall the ffs part in the 4.3 book correctly,
this ought to work, but it doesn't.

-Bernard