From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 24 08:22:55 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id IAA24714 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:22:55 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA24681 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 08:22:42 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA20811; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:22:29 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id RAA07135 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 17:22:29 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA15789 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:55:35 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508241455.QAA15789@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Changing DEV_BSIZE To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 16:55:32 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199508241228.IAA15834@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Aug 24, 95 08:28:19 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 553 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Dufault wrote: > > > MOD's are certaily the only candidates that sometimes _require_ a > > different hardware block size > I'm not sure if you meant "certainly not", but in case you really > meant "certainly", some disk arrays have a "sector size" that is > the stripe multiple of the underlying sector size. I meant "certainly", but i didn't knew about these disk arrays. Yet another reason... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)