From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o6NExIi1207048 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 09:59:18 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 36E9146C883 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Fhz4O6fnKWvSORdo for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:02:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fxm19 with SMTP id 19so6022427fxm.26 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:02:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Khelben Blackstaff Subject: Re: 4k sector drives Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:02:11 +0300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201007231802.11491.eye.of.the.8eholder@gmail.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: xfs@oss.sgi.com > 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. It hurts a lot. On my 1TB EARS when i was benchmarking unaligned partitions, untarring a linux kernel for example took ages. (tar output finished quickly but then you had to wait a long time till the shell prompt returns) With aligned partition, performance is normal. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs