The following reply was made to PR kern/15364; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
To: chuq@chuq.com
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/15364
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:53:22 +0900

 > well, I was thinking it would be good to have the property that a given block
 > is written in one I/O, since that's what the softdep code was designed for,
 > and it'd be safer to maintain the assumptions that the softdep code makes.
 > but you're probably right that it's not really required.
 
 while block-alignment might have good aspects,
 it can confuse pagedaemon and increase number of i/o
 if both of active and inactive pages are in a block.
 i'm not sure if it affects real-world performance, tho.
 
 > would you like to
 > implement your bitmap idea?
 
 i will.
 
 YAMAMOTO Takashi