Re: PR/45990: sysinst uses traditional 63 sector MBR offset

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/45990; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: PR/45990:  sysinst uses traditional 63 sector MBR offset
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 06:38:35 +0000

 On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 03:05:03PM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  >  >  Is this something that should be pulled-up to netbsd-6 considering
  >  >  it'll increase performance of new installations, and netbsd-6 isn't yet
  >  >  officially released?
  >  
  >  I'm not an expert of PC partitioning and modern storage
  >  devices, and there is no review comment on this PR.
  >  If someone[TM] who has enough knowledge about this issue
  >  thinks it's worth, he will send a pullup request.
 
 Yes, it should be pulled up.
 
  >  I also wonder if 128GB is a good threshold for modern SSD etc.
 
 It's better than nothing.
 
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