Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 21:12:18 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: tom@uniserve.com (Tom), gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG, irc@cooltime.simplenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Download of FreeBSD 3.0-SNAP Message-ID: <199809140412.VAA00438@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Sep 1998 23:43:39 -0000." <199809132343.QAA23937@usr04.primenet.com>
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>> > Over fast local links, the speed of your disk often affects the speed >> > of the install more than network issues. >> >> If 200 KB/s is too much for your disks, it is time to join the late >> '80s and get new disks. > >Note that even some brand new disks will bottleneck you. > >FreeBSD no longer does elevator sorts on data pending output, >relying instead on the disk hardware to be smarter about this, >especially given the likelihood that the drive is lying about >its pysical geometry, making it unlikely that any sort you >could do would result in an optimization. Not true. All of the "dumb" drivers (wd, fd, etc) call a generic disk block elevator sorting function. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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