MaxTransfer question

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From: Darren New
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1989 17:47

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I am somewhat confused about the role of MaxTransfer in the
mountlist and startup message.  I thought MaxTransfer was the
largest request that the filesystem was supposed to issue to the
device driver (say, hddisk.device) via a TD_READ command.  I have
been recently told that at least one large device-driver-writer
interprets this to be the largest request that hddisk.device
should issue to the hardware, implying that the FFS never needs to
look at this field during normal operation (i.e., after mounting).
Does anybody have an answer to this?  Does FFS actually limit
its requests to the size specified in MaxTransfer?  -- Darren

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