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From: Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
To: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Cc: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 4k sector drives
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:13:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100723141341.GA3727@citd.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100723155034.2a42ccd7@harpe.intellique.com>

On 23.07.2010 15:50, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:43 +0200
> Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> écrivait:
> 
> > Only for writes, reads are for practically unaffected.
> 
> Sequential writes may be relatively unaffected too; if you write
> sequentially a couple of megabytes you'll have only a couple of
> additional blocks at the beginning and end of operation.

What MAY hurt, also for large writes, are the meta-data operations while 
writing the file. (e.g. the file-size changes, journaling ...)

But i haven't tested that and can't say for sure how much that hurts.




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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-23 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-21 10:33 4k sector drives Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21 12:21 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23  6:09 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23  9:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-23 10:42     ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 10:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-23 12:41         ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 10:59     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-23 12:56       ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 13:10       ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-23 13:38         ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2010-07-23 13:50           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 14:13             ` Matthias Schniedermeyer [this message]
2010-07-24  8:47       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-24 21:07         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-07-24 22:35           ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-25 15:33             ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-23 15:02 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-23 15:28 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23  9:19 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21  7:53 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21  9:14 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-21 10:33   ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-20 18:58 Michael Monnerie
2010-07-20 20:30 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-20 20:39 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-20 21:34   ` Michael Monnerie

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