From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jshankar Subject: ext3 block size question Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:29:41 -0600 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3F4AF091@webmail.colostate.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from bach.cs.colostate.edu ([129.82.45.181]:46506 "EHLO bach.cs.colostate.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261561AbTHYH3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 03:29:42 -0400 Received: from webmail.colostate.edu (csunts4.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.135]) by bach.cs.colostate.edu (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7P7Tfq6009386 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 01:29:41 -0600 (MDT) To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Hello, I was measuring the performance of ext3 file system. As the block size increases,read and write performance improves. why there is a better performance improvement for large block sizes??. Thanks Jayshankar