From: mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com (Mulyadi Santosa)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Question on hd_geometry & blk_rq_cur_sectors
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 12:24:13 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikTEqXdz=riksEKbWE1fUgihMzHAg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin_waCfjXkq4QWgrXQS=wW8kU0vMg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:43, Vic <vic.lix10@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also, with my current settings, if I use DD on my ramdisk I get
> "blk_rq_cur_sectors" count to be always 8, which confuses my drive b'se I
> want to only handle 512 requests at a time.
> Simple command to test the disk sing DD?"sudo dd if=/dev/urandom
> of=/dev/sbd0 bs=512 count=1"
> with bs=512 I was hoping to see only the 512 byte request
read ahead setting, maybe?
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regards,
Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
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2011-05-04 3:43 Question on hd_geometry & blk_rq_cur_sectors Vic
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