From owner-cvs-all Mon Sep 10 18: 8:59 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney3.au.ibm.com [202.135.142.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AF037B405; Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by canberra.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f8ANTPN01844; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:29:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:29:25 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/vinum vinum.8 Message-ID: <20010911092925.A1829@canberra.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <200109090223.f892N6091345@freefall.freebsd.org> <23009.1000128332@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <23009.1000128332@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 03:25:32PM +0200 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 10 September 2001 at 15:25:32 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Sat, 08 Sep 2001 19:23:06 MST, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> Modified files: >> sbin/vinum vinum.8 >> Log: >> Use a better stripe size in the examples. > > What do I need to read that will help me understand why these new stripe > sizes are better than their replacements? The man page. This was stuff that I forgot to change when I updated the man page earlier. Basically, you need a large stripe size to avoid fragmenting requests. You need a non-power-of-2 to avoid putting all your superblocks on the same subdisk. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message