svn commit: r304142 - head/usr.sbin/bsdinstall/partedit

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 17 16:04:12 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> writes:
>> Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> writes:
>> > I have mentioned several examples to you, and even told you how to
>> > confirm, by inspecting the source code, that most drivers do *not*
>> > set the stripe size.
>> Most drivers? Yes, sure. Most drivers that people use? No.
>
> Every.  Single.  Dell.  Server.
>
> Probably every single HP server as well, I haven't checked.
>
> VirtualBox gets it wrong.  Xen gets it wrong.  I believe KVM (including
> RHEV) and VMWare get it wrong too, but haven't been able to verify.
>
> I guess those aren't important to you?

Also, SD cards get it wrong. It is reported, true enough, but it is often
wrong in the sense it can be suboptimal. Different SD cards report
different things for the number of sectors to erase at a time. Some
vendors do an excellent job of reporting the optimal amount. Others
do not (often because the

Warner


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