Subject: Using CCD driver to improve disk I/O.....
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Sung N. Cho <sucho2@vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/02/2002 13:44:09
Hi,
I heard that by using ccd (concatenated/striped disk devices), one can
improve the disk I/O. I read the manual (ccd) but it's more of dictionary of
what ccd is and does. It fails to describe how to set it up. Anybody knows
how to set this up? Here's my disklabel info:
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: mydisk
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 945
cylinders: 10068
total sectors: 9514260
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a: 204120 725760 4.2BSD 1024 8192 80 # (Cyl. 768 - 983)
b: 524475 929880 swap # (Cyl. 984 - 1538)
c: 8788500 725760 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 768 - 10067)
d: 9514260 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 10067)
e: 103005 1454355 4.2BSD 1024 8192 96 # (Cyl. 1539 - 1647)
f: 6624450 1557360 4.2BSD 1024 8192 80 # (Cyl. 1648 - 8657)
g: 1332450 8181810 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 8658 - 10067)
h: 725697 63 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*- 767)
What do I need to modify for this to work?
Also, in my kernel config file, I have:
pseudo-device ccd 4 # concatenated/striped disk devices
Do I need to increase the number 4 to 5 as in # of partitions or is this
corresponding to 4 physical disks?
Thank you.
Sung N. Cho