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Date:      Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:57:46 -0500
From:      Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vinum and hot-swapping
Message-ID:  <20030714015746.GE50589@freshaire.wiz.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030714003258.GP94666@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <200307130245.h6D2j8HB000556@soth.ventu> <20030713191453.GF23909@dan.emsphone.com> <20030714003258.GP94666@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:02:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> > I don't believe vinum can optimize full-stripe writes, though, since
> > FreeBSD can only do I/O in 64k max chunks,
> 
> 128 kB.
> 

Greg,

I thought physio was limited to 64 KB?  The man page on dump
states this.  Please correct me if I am wrong.

I was told this was due to an ISA limitation but IMHO many people
don't run systems with ISA anymore.  (Except of course keyboards, mouse
and serial ports :-)

Thanks,
Marc

-- 
Marc Wiz
marc@wiz.com
Yes, that really is my last name.



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