Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org> writes: > hello. I know that this has ben a very long term project, but I'm > wondering about the > status of this effort? I note that FreeBSD-13 has a Maxphys value of 1048576 > bytes. > Have we found other ways to get more throughput from ATA disks that obviate > the need for this > setting which I'm not aware of? > If not, is anyone working on this project? The wiki page says the project is > stalled.
I haven't heard that anyone is. When you run dd with bs=64k and then bs=1m, how different are the results? (I believe raw requests happen accordingly, vs MAXPHYS for fs etc. access.)
