From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Cc: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxfs: Get Physical Sector Size instead of Logical Sector size
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:54:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111128075451.GA6000@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ED2C233.8010104@sandeen.net>
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 05:05:23PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > i.e. do we have any guarantee at all that a PBS sized IO will either
> > wholly complete or wholly fail when PBS != sector size? And if not,
> > why is this a change we should make given it appears to me to
> > violate a fundamental assumption of the filesystem design?
>
> I had the expectation that physical block size WAS the fundamental/atomic
> IO size for the disk, and anything smaller required read/modify/write.
> So I made this suggestion (and I think hch concurred) so that we weren't
> doing log IOs which required RMW & translation.
Yes, that is how it is defined.
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-24 19:20 [PATCH] libxfs: Get Physical Sector Size instead of Logical Sector size Carlos Maiolino
2011-11-24 19:50 ` Carlos Maiolino
2011-11-27 1:06 ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-27 23:05 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-11-27 23:50 ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-28 7:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-11-28 16:08 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-11-28 16:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-11-29 17:15 ` Martin K. Petersen
2011-11-29 17:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-11-30 0:19 ` Dave Chinner
2011-11-30 15:03 ` Carlos Maiolino
2011-11-28 16:56 ` Greg Freemyer
2011-11-28 7:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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