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Article #893Re: What's a better block size for a Fuji 520M drive?
From: M Carling
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:34
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 01:34
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In article <1992Aug18.231820.948@convex.com> finger@convex.com (Jay Finger) writes: > Will the NeXT support sector sizes greater than 1024 bytes? Since the sd > driver reads/writes 8K chunks, might one find even better performance with > 8K sectors? If the disk could do it, and the computer could do it, 8K blocks would be faster (not much) and increase capacity (again not much). But unless you have just a few files each of which is quite large, that is not an efficient way to use space. Also, I don't know of any drives which support 8K blocks. NeXT's current software supports 512 byte or 1024 byte blocks, and I haven't heard anything that would suggest that they are considering changing that. M Carling Director, Bay Area NeXT Group -- Dan Quayle needs a new running mate. George Bush undermines his chances of being re-elected Vice President.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news From: m@crito.stanford.edu (M Carling) Subject: Re: What's a better block size for a Fuji 520M drive? Message-ID: <1992Aug19.013435.15349@leland.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: DSO, Stanford University References: <1992Aug18.231820.948@convex.com> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 01:34:35 GMT Lines: 21