* 4k sector sizes
@ 2010-02-26 20:30 Walter R. Fletcher
2010-02-26 20:41 ` Eric Sandeen
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From: Walter R. Fletcher @ 2010-02-26 20:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Western Digital has announced hard drives that will
have 4K sized sectors instead of 512 bytes. I'm sure
other manufacturers will do so too...
I wonder about potential effects on performance one
might see re: xfs with a 4k block size and the WD hard
drives with the 4k sectors. Is this a valid question?
Just a curious (xfs-using) fly on the wall...
__Reid__
Reid Fletcher
Chief Engineer, Wyoming Public Radio
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
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* Re: 4k sector sizes
2010-02-26 20:30 4k sector sizes Walter R. Fletcher
@ 2010-02-26 20:41 ` Eric Sandeen
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From: Eric Sandeen @ 2010-02-26 20:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Walter R. Fletcher; +Cc: xfs
Walter R. Fletcher wrote:
>
> Western Digital has announced hard drives that will
> have 4K sized sectors instead of 512 bytes. I'm sure
> other manufacturers will do so too...
>
> I wonder about potential effects on performance one
> might see re: xfs with a 4k block size and the WD hard
> drives with the 4k sectors. Is this a valid question?
>
> Just a curious (xfs-using) fly on the wall...
Totally valid question; by and large, XFS should detect
this and cope just fine. There may be one hole where
if you manually specify a block size < 4k at mkfs time,
it will continue without complaint, when in fact this
may be sub-optimal for the drive.
A lot of work has been done upstream and in Fedora,
at least, to be sure that partitioning and mkfs tools
can and do query the block device for this (and other)
information, to be sure that the results are well-aligned
and efficient.
Recent userspace & kernel is needed for all this to work
nicely together, though.
-Eric
> __Reid__
>
> Reid Fletcher
> Chief Engineer, Wyoming Public Radio
> University of Wyoming
> Laramie, WY
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