A few questions to help address the bytes vs units notion:
1) What do FreeBSD, Linux, and Illumos do? OpenBSD/Dragonfly/others?
2) How would either strategy interact with ZFS? Long term, NetBSD
needs to get 1st-class ZFS support, and what ZFS needs/wants is an
interesting issue for that goal,
On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:40:39PM +, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:25:21PM +, Michael van Elst wrote:
> > dholland-t...@netbsd.org (David Holland) writes:
> >
> > >The problem I see with carrying around unit values at runtime (besides
> > >potential overhead)
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:25:21PM +, Michael van Elst wrote:
> dholland-t...@netbsd.org (David Holland) writes:
>
> >The problem I see with carrying around unit values at runtime (besides
> >potential overhead) is that at least in FS-level code it'll make a
> >huge mess. FFS, for example
