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To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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Subject: Re: IDE vs SCSI was: flags 80ff works (like anybody doubted it) 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:58:46 -0700
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>
>Hi David Greenman;  On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: 
>> >FreeBSD does ALL its file I/O in 4K blocks.  Your test is really a test
>> >of the kernel's ability to issue strategy calls quickly, at best.
>>  
>>     Huh? No it doesn't; what ever gave you that idea?
>>  
>>  -DG
>
>Which idea?  The 4K?  I enable a certain debugging level
>(DPT_DEBUG_COMPLETION) in the DPT driver, lean back and enjoy the messages
>fly by.  I have not seen anything larger than 4K yet.
>
>In SCSI, random disk I/O, up to about 8K blocks, the amount of time it

   FreeBSD can read and write up to 64KB, depending on various factors
including the contiguousness of the file, the sequentialness of the accesses,
and other factors. Random reads/writes to a file will usually happen in
blocksize chunks which are either 4KB or (more commonly) 8KB.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project