On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> i've installed x86 solaris. while it's graphical tools (while i don't know
> now how to turn off while installing, and how to configure devices) it's
> terribly slow, java-bloated etc., OS itself looks fast.
> 
> especially disk I/O. i found that while it buffers well small file I/O on
> it's dynamically resizable cache, it doesn't bloat memory with large file
> I/O. and doesn't "stall" when lots of writes are pending like netbsd.
> 
> filesystem looks like ffs (it's called ufs there), but i found
> cylinders/group to be set to 1000 - value impossible for netbsd.

Can you tell me why cylinders/group setting of 1000 is not possible? What
is the size of one cylinder in this case?  Thanks.

-Zhihui