On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:32:58PM +0100, wojtek@wojtek.from.pl wrote:
> > > 
> > > START layout
> > > 32 1 1 5
> > 
> > You may want something larger than 32 here, This mean 16k blocks read/write to
> > the disk. You'd want something larger - 64 or 128 - to decrease the interrupt
> > load and increase the IDE bandwith.
> but no more than 128 because of MAXPHYS limit. larger WILL work but every
> write mean rewrite that case

Actually, it's worse than that.

If you have four disks, and you use a value more than 16, a write will
never be a full-stripe write, so once again you'll get a rewrite in every
case.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
    And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
  foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
						   William Styron