From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 15:53:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29BC516A415 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:53:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4EE43D66 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:53:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id k9BFr1Vi012893; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:53:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Scott Long Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:53:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <45297DA2.4000509@fluffles.net> <20061010051216.G814@epsplex.bde.org> <452AB55D.9090607@samsco.org> <452AC4EB.8000006@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <452AC4EB.8000006@samsco.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 bonnies can stop disk activity permanently X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:53:03 -0000 On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:53:47 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.fs you wrote: >Mike Tancsa wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:47:25 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.fs you >> wrote: >>=20 >>=20 >>>this is only a crude hack. I get around this right now by not using a >>>disklabel or fdisk table on arrays where I value speed. For those, I >>>just put a filesystem directly on the array, and boot off of a small >>>system disk. >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> How is that done ? just newfs -O2 -U /dev/da0 ? > >Yup. Hi, Is this going to work in most/all cases ? In other words, how to I make sure the file system I lay down is indeed properly / optimally aligned with the underlying structure ? ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)