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From: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
To: stan@hardwarefreak.com, joystick <joystick@shiftmail.org>
Cc: linux-raid <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The chunk size paradox
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:31:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C59468.6080200@ubuntu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52C588A7.6010207@hardwarefreak.com>

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On 1/2/2014 10:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> First, there is no such thing as a 4K sector in Linux.  Sectors are
> 512 bytes.  Filesystem blocks and memory pages are 4K.

Of course there is.  Disks with 4k sectors are becoming more and more
popular.  CD-ROM type drives have always used 2k sectors.  Also
filesystem blocks and memory pages aren't necessarily 4K, though that
is the most common size.

> read the data chunk of the stripe in which the 4 sectors of the
> 4KB

You mean 8 sectors, assuming you're still talking about 512 byte sectors.


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-02 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-30 18:48 The chunk size paradox Phillip Susi
2013-12-30 23:38 ` Peter Grandi
2013-12-31  0:01   ` Wolfgang Denk
2013-12-31 13:51     ` David Brown
2014-01-02 20:08   ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-02 14:49 ` joystick
2014-01-02 15:24   ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-02 15:41   ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-02 16:31     ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2014-01-02 18:02       ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-02 19:10         ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-02 22:49           ` Peter Grandi
2014-01-02 23:16           ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-03  1:02             ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-02 19:21         ` Joe Landman
2014-01-02 22:42           ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-02 22:56             ` Carsten Aulbert
2014-01-03  0:19               ` Phillip Susi
2014-01-03  1:24               ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-03  3:14               ` Joe Landman
2014-01-03  3:19                 ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-03  4:24                   ` Stan Hoeppner
2014-01-02 23:22           ` Peter Grandi
2014-01-03  3:09             ` Joe Landman
2014-01-03  4:58             ` Joe Landman
2014-01-02 22:32         ` Wolfgang Denk
2014-01-03 14:51           ` Benjamin ESTRABAUD

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