Re: bin/41652: newfs ignores block and frag sizes in disklabel

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41652; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/41652: newfs ignores block and frag sizes in disklabel
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:13:45 +0100

 On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:40:00PM +0000, bad%bsd.de@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         41652
 > >Category:       bin
 > >Synopsis:       newfs neither respects nor updates the block and frag sizes 
 > >in disklabel
 ...
 > newfs(8) specifies that the defaults are taken from the disklabel.
 > I have chosen 8K/1k block/frag sizes in the disklabel for partitions.
 > newfs ignores this for filesystems >1G and uses 16k/2k block/frag sizes.
 > newfs also fails to update the block/frag sizes in the kernel as the man
 > page specifes.
 
 IMHO the block/frag sizes don't belong in the disklabel ....
 
 So maybe just the documentation should be changed.
 
        David
 
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