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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:14:30 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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
Message-ID:  <20030114111430.GJ61405@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <200301141055.h0EAtC2Y079386@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <200301131942.h0DJgfbN010760@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030114100821.GE61405@starjuice.net> <200301141055.h0EAtC2Y079386@apollo.backplane.com>

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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.

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