From: Khelben Blackstaff <eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 4k sector drives
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007231802.11491.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> (raw)
> 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.
It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned
partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar output
finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the shell
prompt returns)
With aligned partition, performance is normal.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-23 15:02 Khelben Blackstaff [this message]
2010-07-23 15:28 ` 4k sector drives Emmanuel Florac
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2010-07-23 9:19 Khelben Blackstaff
2010-07-21 10:33 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
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
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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