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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:23:51 +1100
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-performance@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FFS - Still using rotational delay with modern disks?
Message-ID:  <20121217232351.GB26067@eureka.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121217214413.263570@gmx.com>
References:  <20121217214413.263570@gmx.com>

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On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 16:44:11 -0500, Dieter BSD wrote:
> The newfs man page says:
>
>  -a maxcontig
>  Specify the maximum number of contiguous blocks that will be laid
>  out before forcing a rotational delay. =A0The default value is 16.
>  See tunefs(8) for more details on how to set this option.
>
> Is this still a good idea with modern drives where the number of
> sectors per track varies, and no one but the manufacturer knows how
> many sectors a particular track has?

No.

It looks as if this, and also a number of comments in sys/ufs/ffs/fs.h
and sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_alloc.c, are leftovers from the Olden Days.  The
value isn't used anywhere that I can see.  Unless somebody can show
that I'm wrong, I'd suggest that this is a documentation issue that I
can take a look at.

Greg
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