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From: "Francisco Reyes" <reyesf@super.zippo.com>
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Subject: Optimizing HD I/O. What size to use to read/write?
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I am going to start working on a program which will be heavy on I/O.
I was wondering what would be a good size to read/write at a time.

What is the minimun block size FreeBSD allocates? 4K? 8K? Is it HD
dependent?