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Date:      Wed, 09 Jan 2002 13:21:57 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c 
Message-ID:  <20020109212157.3EDE238CC@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20020109102330.A2484-100000@patrocles.silby.com> 

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Mike Silbersack wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Ian Dowse wrote:
> 
> > iedowse     2002/01/09 07:46:17 PST
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     sys/boot/i386/boot2  boot2.c
> >   Log:
> >   Increase BSIZEMAX from 8k to 16k, so that we can reliably boot from
> >   filesystems with 16k blocks.
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.34      +1 -1      src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/boot2.c
> 
> Should we just be jumping right to 32K or 64K now?  I believe that some
> people already use such blocksizes on large filesystems.

Be aware that the buffer cache is currently tuned for a maximum block 
size of 16K.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5


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