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Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 17:12:08 +0200
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 Whitehorn's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2016 08:02:38 -0700")
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Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> writes:
> We have a mechanism (GEOM stripe size) for drivers to supply a default
> alignment to userland. If we think we can get that right, great. If we
> don't think we can get it right, the default system policy in the
> absence of real information from drivers should be modified to report
> a number that we think is more likely to be safe than the current
> defaults (the logical sector size, usually 512 bytes) and potentially
> tunable by the user. Hacking the userland tools one-by-one to impose
> their own default policies to override the systemwide one is, while a
> perfectly valid stopgap right before a release, a ridiculous long-term
> solution. Do you disagree with any of that?

I'll tell you whether I agree or disagree when you stop putting words in
my mouth.

DES
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