From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 21 0:32:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lh2.rdc1.ab.home.com (ha1.rdc1.ab.wave.home.com [24.64.2.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1237814F31 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdh@best.com) Received: from best.com ([24.66.216.246]) by lh2.rdc1.ab.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with ESMTP id <19991221083257.CRBC15713.lh2.rdc1.ab.home.com@best.com> for ; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 00:32:57 -0800 Received: (from rdh@localhost) by best.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) id BAA00451; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:32:55 -0700 (MST) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: when is it safe to use the 0xa0ffa0ff disk flags? References: From: Dale Hagglund Date: 21 Dec 1999 01:32:54 -0700 Message-ID: <86iu1s8zih.fsf@ponoka.battleriver.com> Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070098 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.98) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I guess my main concern was that I could end up destroying the data on my disks if I experimented with these values, but it didn't sound as though that's the case. So, I went ahead and played around with the flags, first by changing them during boot up, and then rebuilding the kernel. I went from about 4.1 MB/s for both reads and writes to 12.3 MB/s for reads and 9.8 MB/s for writes. Thanks to all who replied... Dale. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message