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Date:      Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:34:22 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@jonny.eng.br>
To:        luoqi@watermarkgroup.com (Luoqi Chen)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, imp@village.org
Subject:   Re: 64k physio limit
Message-ID:  <199808311834.PAA17561@roma.coe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <199808310926.FAA13727@lor.watermarkgroup.com> from Luoqi Chen at "Aug 31, 98 05:26:35 am"

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#define quoting(Luoqi Chen)
// > Is there any way to get a larger I/O to happen than 64k?  I have a tape
// > drive that would be happiest if I could do 256kish writes to it at a time,
// > rather than only 64k.
// > 
// > Warner
// > 
// Set the device driver's cdevsw:d_maxio to 256k?

Which problems arise from making this the default ?  Memory waste ?

					Jonny

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Joao Carlos Mendes Luis            M.Sc. Student
jonny@jonny.eng.br                 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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