Subject: Re: Really bad performance when doing newfs
To: NetBSD Users <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel.cahyna@st.mff.cuni.cz>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 02/05/2006 10:01:57
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 05:05:18AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> On 2/2/06, Jeff Rizzo <riz@netbsd.org> wrote:
> > What newfs command line did you use?  Were you using the block device
> > instead of the raw, by any chance?
> 
> It was the block device... I thought newfs chose the raw device no matter what?
> 
> newfs /dev/wd3a

If invoked as newfs wd3a, it indeed choses the raw device. But it respects
your choice.

Pavel