On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:15:33PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Well, varying both, actually. I'm curious whether it is a large block > size, or block_size == page_size that really matters. sorry - I'm not sure I understand the distinction. My take is a larger page size (ie 16k is better than 4k). It looks like ext2 uses PAGE_SIZE to size it's IOs: > The reason why I care is because it makes a difference as to what the > default mke2fs hueristics should be. My gut feeling is native page_size and then warn about compatibility if that is > 4k. > (By the way, even without > hacking e2fsprogs at all, if you use mke2fs -Tlargefile, it will use a > default blocksize == pagesize, and this currently bypasses the > EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE check entirely.) The question is whether or not > this is really optimal behaviour.... re-aim-7 seems to think so. I sent you privately the 4k and 16k pagesize runs that I had posted earlier. grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Wed Jul 30 23:35:52 2003
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