From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 14 11: 8:45 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6DE37B401; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E37743F5B; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: from apollo.backplane.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EJ8h0i081524; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0EJ8hhd081523; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:08:43 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200301141908.h0EJ8hhd081523@apollo.backplane.com> To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/dump Makefile cache.c dump.8 dump.h main.c traverse.c References: <200301131942.h0DJgfbN010760@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030114100821.GE61405@starjuice.net> <200301141055.h0EAtC2Y079386@apollo.backplane.com> <20030114111430.GJ61405@starjuice.net> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On (2003/01/14 02:55), Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> Well, the NetBSD specification is aweful. I would never impose it :> on our poor sysops! It's completely non-obvious and you need a :> calculator to figure out how large a cache you want. It's in multiples :> of the 'readblksize', which defaults to 32K. I don't know WHAT they :> were thinking! : :Ah. I thought it used 512 byte units, which would have been tolerable. : :In that case, I'm no longer one of the people who care about :compatibility with NetBSD here. : :Still, you might save yourself some pain by waiting a little longer :before you MFC. :-) : :Anyway, thanks for bringing in the feature. : :Ciao, :Sheldon. Sorry, I misspoke originally. I originally did say it was 512 byte units but then I looked at the NetBSD code more carefully and it's definitely in readblksize chunks. I misread the numarg() call NetBSD was making. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message