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Date:      Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:34:59 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: (in)appropriate uses for MAXBSIZE
Message-ID:  <4BBEF4C3.3090902@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <201004091125.31395.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <4BBEE2DD.3090409@freebsd.org> <201004091125.31395.hselasky@c2i.net>

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on 09/04/2010 12:25 Hans Petter Selasky said the following:
> On Friday 09 April 2010 10:18:37 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> As you know MAXBSIZE is currently defined to 64K (seems to a popular value
>>  for constants).  There is the following comment for this parameter and its
>>  value:
>>
> 
>> Feedback welcome.
>> Thanks!
>>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Some hardware will break if you do more than 64K at a time. Especially USB 
> memory sticks.

I know, but I am not sure what your point is.
The drivers should use appropriate limits for their hardware.
MAXBSIZE is not related to hardware.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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