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Subject: Re: impact of 4k sector size on the IO & FS stack
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:34:23 -0700
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:11:44AM -0400, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> I'd guess a vast majority of IO will have the end similarly
> misaligned as the start.  Very little filesystem IO is 512 bytes,
> possibly excluding XFS in an unusual mode.

XFS (mkfs.xfs) can be told what the native sector size is and will
adjust writes accordingly.