re: WAPL panic

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:30:22PM +0100, Edgar Fu? wrote:
> > > But it did. Twice.
> > Third time, same backtrace. In this case, a simple
> >     mkdir x
> > on the same file system as before.
> > That's a plain FFSv1 sized 553MB with 64k blocks. The only unusual thing is 
> > it has some 100000 inodes. Does that give a clue?
> 
> No, but the 64K blocks do.  Almost nobody uses them.  Are you running all
> your filesystems with 64K blocks?

FWIW:

i've been running a file system with 64K blocks and frags for
about 3 years now, quite successfully and it has quite a lot
of random read activity constantly.


.mrg.