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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:57:46 -0500
From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
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Subject: Re: vinum and hot-swapping
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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

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