Re: kern/54470: Adapt FFS to work with HP-UX UFS1 variant

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

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From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/54470: Adapt FFS to work with HP-UX UFS1 variant
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 05:23:01 -0000 (UTC)

 perseant%hhhh.org@localhost (Konrad Schroder) writes:
 
 >Do we have a way to construct a file system that works with NetBSD, 
 >which has a physical sector size other than DEV_BSIZE?  If so, I can 
 >test against it.
 
 You can use newfs -S to configure the superblock value.
 
 You can also use vnd with a "geomspec" to create a virtual disk that
 really reports a different physical block size. newfs will automatically
 determine the block size.
 
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