Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2001 12:18:51 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: sthaug@nethelp.no Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <200112092018.fB9KIpe01166@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Dec 2001 13:01:39 %2B0100." <44735.1007899299@verdi.nethelp.no>
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> (The other day a coworker of mine wanted to use DD for some IBM DTLA
> disks, because he'd heard that the disks performed better that way -
> something to do with scatter-gather not working right unless you used
> DD. I'm highly skeptical about this since I have my own measurements
> from IBM DTLA disks partitioned the normal way, ie. NOT DD, and they
> show the disks performing extremely well. Anybody else want to comment
> on this?)
Since scatter-gather has nothing to do with the disk (it's a feature of
the disk controller's interface to host memory), I think this coworker of
yours is delusional.
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rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want
to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force
people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt]
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