Thomas King wrote: > To fill in one piece of information, I'm reading the maximum block size can be > limited by the Linux page size, 4K on x86. Is this true in ext4? > > I know this is a basic question, so thanks for humoring me. > Tom King Generally, yes. There are patches: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/largeblocksize/4/patches/ but I'm not sure what the current state of all that is, honestly... Before it's discussed as a limitation though it'd be interesting to see some recent benchmarks on how much it might actually matter. >From some reports: http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Large_Blocksize_Performance it may indeed help. -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
