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[nate at portents.com]

> in the disks i know about, all the zones have the same number of
> cylinders.  suppose you make your fs cg size this same number?  you're
> screwed [for fs optimization], because your fs label can only assume
> all cgs are the same size, but the zones aren't.  there's no way to
> set sectors/track cg-by-cg, only for the whole disk.

I thought it's been well established that for many years now that drive
geometries in modern hard drives are completely fictitious?  AFAIK the
last time they actually meant something was back in the mid-90's.

- Nate