> No, don't make it a run-time or auto-detect thing, just a compile time
> option. By default, leave it at 8192, since "that's the way its always been"...
> but if we are justifying it based on disk block size, its 2x the disk block
> size that my system is setup for. What's the difference between that and making
> it 3x or 4x? Or, hell, would I get a performance increase if I brought it
> down to 4096, which is what my actually disk block size is?
>
> So, what we would really be doing is setting the default to 8192, but give
> the installer the opportunity (with a caveat that this value should be a multiple
> of default file system block size for optimal performance) to increase it as they
> see fit.
I assume you changed the default, becuase the BSD44 default is 8k
blocks, with 1k fragments.
I don't think there is any 'performance' improvement with making it
greater than the file system block size.
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Bruce Momjian
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