Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:25:57 +0000 (GMT) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c Message-ID: <20020109122125.G2484-100000@patrocles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <200201091714.aa02189@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote: > In message <20020109102330.A2484-100000@patrocles.silby.com>, Mike Silbersack w > rites: > > > >Should we just be jumping right to 32K or 64K now? I believe that some > >people already use such blocksizes on large filesystems. > > I posted a patch a day or two ago that makes the buffer size more > dynamic in the i386 case, to avoid the need for a defined maximum > block size. Mike Smith suggested just changing the limit to 16k for > 4.5-RELEASE, and I agree that this is the safest thing to do for > now. Ah, yes, that makes sense for 4.5-release. I was just curious if you were working on a more long-term solution. > The boot environment is quite restricted, so I'm not sure offhand > if we can safely go to 32k or 64k without further changes. In fact, > a much better approach would be to change the code so that it reads > large blocks in fixed-sized chunks. I'll see if that can be done > without too much additional code-bloat. > > Ian Despite the constraints, I'm sure you'll come up with something good. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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