Re: 4k sector sizes on new disks?

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

john%ziaspace.com@localhost (John Klos) writes:

>Does newfs automatically choose 4k fragment sizes for new drives with 4k 
>sectors?

Sort of. Currently you need to specify the sector size with -S. Fragment
and block sizes are validated or selected automatically.


>I'm wondering how much fallout there will be when these drives become more 
>common.

Most of these drives will just work, you just treat them as old 512byte-
per-sector-disks. As you read in the article, you need to be careful about
partitioning to avoid the alignment issues.

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