Subject: Re: newfs defaults
To: Perry E.Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 10/15/2005 08:50:09
On Oct 15, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>
> David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
>> There is little choice....
>>
>> The allocation bitmaps have to fit into a single filesystem block.
>> (something else that FFSv2 should have changed...)
>
> Er, given the atomicity constraints (only single block writes are
> atomic) how could that have been changed?

Single file system block, not single disk block.

-- thorpej