From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o6NEApRV204621 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:10:51 -0500 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id C79C81B8F931 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (enyo.dsw2k3.info [195.71.86.239]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id dHU7iNyP7FlSYqho for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 07:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:13:41 +0200 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: 4k sector drives Message-ID: <20100723141341.GA3727@citd.de> References: <201007211333.48363.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> <201007230809.28111@zmi.at> <20100723095832.GA23174@infradead.org> <201007231259.11714@zmi.at> <4C4994CB.2050200@hardwarefreak.com> <20100723133843.GA3397@citd.de> <20100723155034.2a42ccd7@harpe.intellique.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100723155034.2a42ccd7@harpe.intellique.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Emmanuel Florac Cc: Stan Hoeppner , xfs@oss.sgi.com On 23.07.2010 15:50, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > Le Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:38:43 +0200 > Matthias Schniedermeyer =E9crivait: > = > > Only for writes, reads are for practically unaffected. > = > Sequential writes may be relatively unaffected too; if you write > sequentially a couple of megabytes you'll have only a couple of > additional blocks at the beginning and end of operation. What MAY hurt, also for large writes, are the meta-data operations while = writing the file. (e.g. the file-size changes, journaling ...) But i haven't tested that and can't say for sure how much that hurts. Bis denn -- = Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as = bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, = cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs