Re: Partition alignment for optimal disk I/O

2018-12-08 Thread Greg Troxel
"J. Lewis Muir" writes: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 7:40 PM Greg Troxel wrote: >> So yes, if you use MBR, make the NetBSD partition start at a mulitple of >> 64. Then, within disklabel, make every partition start at a multiple of >> 64. > > Thank you for your reply! Sorry to reply to this so la

Re: Partition alignment for optimal disk I/O

2018-12-08 Thread J. Lewis Muir
On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 7:40 PM Greg Troxel wrote: > If the underlying actual disk(s) has 512-byte sectors, so that operations > are the same speed whether aligned or not then it doesn't amtter. > > If the underlying actual disk(s) has 4K sectors (typical on > 2T disks, > and maybe newer disks eve

man.conf(5)

2018-12-08 Thread Don NetBSD
I'm looking at 7.1/i386... Man page for man.conf(5) claims "_whatdb" to be the name of the apropos db. However, /etc/man.conf actually includes a reference to "_mandb". ISTR _whatdb was working on 6.1 but haven't yet tested _whatdb vs. _mandb on a 7.1 system. Can someone more knowledgeable comm