From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 19 19: 0: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from IMGate1.cshore.com (imgate1.cshore.com [63.237.136.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A309337B416 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 19:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sephiroth (dialup-uu-dynamic10.cshore.com [63.112.158.10]) by IMGate1.cshore.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 146D723F9D; Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:18:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:03:42 -0400 From: Matthew Graybosch To: guardian@dark-rune.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD: Where can / go? Message-Id: <20010919220342.58b0f0d6.matthew@starbreaker.net> In-Reply-To: <39973.203.102.38.135.1000946761.squirrel@www.dark-rune.com> References: <39973.203.102.38.135.1000946761.squirrel@www.dark-rune.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:46:01 +1000 (EST) guardian@dark-rune.com wrote: > Q: How far down a drive can the / be? I'd suggest putting root somewhere within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk for performance reasons, even though disk tech has apparently advanced far enough to render obsolete the 1024 cylinder barrier. I think that you could seriously hamper performance by sticking root at the edge of the disk instead of close to the spindle. ****** Matthew Graybosch [matthew@starbreaker.net] http://www.starbreaker.net :: where dreams and reality collide "Screw Sartre. Hell isn't other people. Hell is debugging other people's code." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message