In message <20030131191127.GS85104@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:

>I hope I'm not mistaken here, but for FFS to work it needs the 512
>byte ops to be atomic, making them not so, or possibly obliterate
>surrounding blocks doesn't sound like a good idea at all.

UFS/FFS has no 512 bytes binding, it can work in other sectorsizes.

The implication is that your fragment size may increase.

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