Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:05:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo@righi.ml.org> Cc: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32-bit filesystem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9906041304190.1345-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906030958540.12815-100000@righi.ml.org>
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On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: > thanks for the hints u gave me. > but I Wanted to ask if this thing of enabling 32 bit disk access > could make the system unstable or something. Possibly. Some drives don't like it. I know of drives that don't support the full number of multi-block-io that they advertise either. > Why if such speed improovement are obtained it is not included for default > in the kernel configuration ?? Compatibility. Again, some drives lie about their capabilities and hang when you try it. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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