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From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti@assyoma.it>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS and sector size on thin volumes
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2017 01:26:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c59ba403f83e571d695a716ccad5d0a@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170909231215.GK17782@dastard>

Il 10-09-2017 01:12 Dave Chinner ha scritto:
> 
> Probably not. And, worse, you open up the possibility of torn
> "single sector" writes if the underlying device isn't a native 4k
> sector device.

Good catch, I was not thinking on how sectsize=4K could interact with 
non-4K disks.

However, if using only 4K disks below the thin volumes/ZVOLs, should I 
manually set sectsize=4K?
Or, again, I should stick with the default and stop worring?

Thanks.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-09 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09 22:11 XFS and sector size on thin volumes Gionatan Danti
2017-09-09 23:12 ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-09 23:26   ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
2017-09-09 23:53     ` Dave Chinner
2017-09-11 22:14       ` Gionatan Danti
2017-09-11 22:28         ` Eric Sandeen
2017-09-12  5:24           ` Gionatan Danti
2017-09-16 16:43             ` Gionatan Danti
2017-09-16 18:33               ` Eric Sandeen
2017-09-16 19:59                 ` Gionatan Danti
2017-09-16 22:01                   ` Eric Sandeen

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