cloning a FreeBSD HDD

soralx at cydem.org soralx at cydem.org
Tue Mar 28 06:10:45 UTC 2006


> On Saturday 25 March 2006 04:42, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > One thing: 1m is a bit small for modern systems. Or for not-so-modern
> > systems. Since nothing else is running, you might as well use all the
> > memory you've got, or as big as you can get a process to be. 128m or
> > more is perfectly reasonable.
> 
> It won't go any faster..
> 
> In a modern system the CPU is so much faster than the disk than anything above 
> about 16k would be enough.

I found 64k to be optimal (e.g, max performance) on most machines

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