b. f. wrote: > On 2/8/10, Jerry McAllister <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:37:30PM -0500, b. f. wrote: [snip] >>> If you're laying out a new disk, you may as well take a few minutes >>> and get the most out of it, even if you're not going to invest in a >>> lot of new hardware. >> >> The system nowdays does all that figuring for you and manages >> boundaries reasonably. >> >> ////jerry >> > > That does not seem to be the conclusion of those who contributed to > the thread I cited, although "reasonably" is open to interpretation.
This will become more critical with the upcoming transition from 512K to 4K sector size. Indeed, I believe it was initial investigations for implementation of this and/with comparison against other OS methods. The large performance differences witnessed led to a deeper, more retrospective look at current approaches based on 512K sectors as well. -Mike _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
