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Date:      Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:39:55 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/gstat gstat.c
Message-ID:  <4780CC1B.8090708@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200801061212.m06CCjON027649@repoman.freebsd.org>

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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>   When the ms/req fields exceed 1 second, drop the fractions to fit more digits.
>   
>   This is unfortunately necessary with some flash based devices which can
>   get hundreds of seconds behind with softupdates enabled.

I'm curious, why is this an issue with flash devices?  Given their famous
ability to perform large numbers of transactions per second, I would have
expected flash-based drives to be the least likely to have this problem.

Colin Percival



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