2 bonnies can stop disk activity permanently

Mike Tancsa mike at sentex.net
Wed Oct 11 08:53:03 PDT 2006


On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:53:47 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.fs you
wrote:

>Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:47:25 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.fs you
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>this is only a crude hack.  I get around this right now by not using a
>>>disklabel or fdisk table on arrays where I value speed.  For those, I
>>>just put a filesystem directly on the array, and boot off of a small
>>>system disk.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 	How is that done ?  just newfs -O2 -U /dev/da0  ?
>
>Yup.

Hi,
	Is this going to work in most/all cases ?  In other words, how
to I make sure the file system I lay down is indeed properly /
optimally aligned with the underlying structure ?

	---Mike
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