Subject: Re: solaris disk I/O
To: Zhihui Zhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/10/2001 19:43:03
> >
> > 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.
63*16 sectors. like in netbsd. with 8kB block 1KB fragments i can't use
more that about 100cpg in netbsd