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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
	Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>,
	"James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership
Subject: Re: I/O topology fixes for big physical block size
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:07:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CA4C3B6.9000104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930163047.GA4098@thunk.org>

On 09/30/2010 11:30 AM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 04:36:42PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> Ok, then it sounds like mkfs.ext4's refusal to make fs blocksize less
>> than device physical sectorsize without -F is broken, and that should
>> be removed.  I'd say issue a warning in the case but if there's a 16k
>> physical device maybe there's no point in warning either?
> 
> If the device physical sectorsize is that big, should we perhaps use
> that as a hint to align writes to that blocks aligned with that
> physical sectorsize?  Right now we use the optimal I/O size, but if
> the optimal I/O size is not specified and the physical sectorsize is,

I can't keep track of all the parameters, is it ever true that optimal
I/O size isn't specified?

> say, 16k or 32k, maybe we should use to calculate for
> s_raid_stripe_width?

Perhaps, though really ext4 still doesn't do -that- much with the value,
anyway...

-Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2010-09-27 23:15         ` I/O topology fixes for big physical block size Mike Snitzer
2010-09-28  4:30           ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-28  5:20             ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-28 14:15               ` Mike Snitzer
2010-09-28 20:57                 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-28 21:24                   ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-09-28 21:36                     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-09-30 16:30                       ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-30 17:07                         ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-09-30 17:33                           ` Mike Snitzer
2010-10-01 14:24                             ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-01 22:19                               ` Martin K. Petersen
2010-10-02  2:31                                 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-10-02  3:03                                   ` Daniel Taylor
2010-10-04 19:49                                   ` Martin K. Petersen

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