Re: 4K drives, sectsz=512, bsize=4096

Michael Monnerie
2010-08-31T22:06:49Z

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On Dienstag, 31. August 2010 Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Just be sure your first sector of your top-level block device
> is 4k aligned, and then yes you'll want to set sector size to 4k
> so that xfs will do all log IO in 4k blocks as well.

I can only hope LVM does it right, I have no idea how it aligns.

> If you do it right (and especially vs. if you do it wrong) it should
> be a bit faster if all IOs are 4k aligned on the disk.

And that's what's interesting me: why? Won't XFS do all I/Os at minimum
for a given block size? Or is it possible XFS does write only a single
sector? I'd expect the smallest I/O size to be the block size, but it
seems I'm wrong?

I guess there's no way to "convert" an existing XFS with
sectsz=512,bsize=4096 to sectsz=4096,bsize=4096? Maybe that's only a
flag that can be changed?

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