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Date:      Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:01:56 -0800
From:      Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CD9660/md(4)/UFS22 silly behaviour
Message-ID:  <CAOjFWZ7gVgUUSv3X2fmfgqyfrKHa5YqLJa0Qw817xTEbr6gxTw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120108223350.GO31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
References:  <20120108222720.GN31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <8401.1326061866@critter.freebsd.dk> <20120108223350.GO31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:31:06PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> In message <20120108222720.GN31224@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov
>> writes:
>>
>> >What is the access patern ? Is it random access, or sequential read
>> >(from the cd9660 POV) ?
>>
>> Random access to files in the CD9660 filesystem, which stores files
>> in sequential 2K blocks.
>
> Then it is reasonable. UFS reads full blocks. If you want/plan to use
> UFS volume for small reads exclusively, you can newfs it with much
> smaller block size, e.g. 8KB or even 4KB.

I think the complaint is that UFS is reading 32 KB (which includes the
2 KB block and 15 others that will be needed right after) but not
caching the 30 KB of data that follows the requested 2 KB.

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash@gmail.com



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