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Date:      Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:03:51 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon), gibbs@scsiguy.com (Justin T. Gibbs), bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), rjesup@wgate.com (Randell Jesup), mjacob@feral.com (Matthew Jacob), msmith@FreeBSD.ORG (Mike Smith), des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling Smorgrav), dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson), tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Seigo Tanimura), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFLT}*PHYS (was Re: Bumping up {MAX,DFL}*SIZ in i386) 
Message-ID:  <31836.981446631@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Feb 2001 06:57:48 GMT." <200102060657.XAA12458@usr08.primenet.com> 

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In message <200102060657.XAA12458@usr08.primenet.com>, Terry Lambert writes:
>>    I think the idea Poul originally articulated -- having simple information
>>    like recommended I/O size, recommended cluster size, and/or maximum I/O
>>    size, is the correct solution.  Getting fancy might buy us a percent
>>    or two... it isn't worth the effort.
>
>I thought Poul had discarded that idea as unworkable, after having
>tried to make it work; I got the impression that he still liked
>the idea, but that he didn't have a way to make it practical (Poul,
>please correct me if I am misinterpreting your last post).

No, that is perfectly possible and basically on requires the addition
of a preferred modulus to the current data in dev_t / struct disk.

Optimal individual clustering is unworkable.

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