Re: I/O topology fixes for big physical block size

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On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:15:45AM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> Actually, -F allows one to override fs blocksize < physical_block_size.
> 
> In this instance we have the following:
> # cat /sys/block/dm-2/queue/physical_block_size 
> 1048576
> # cat /sys/block/dm-2/queue/logical_block_size 
> 512
>  
> > Should we change something?
> 
> Unclear.  I could see maybe automatically capping the fs block size at
> 4096 if physical_block_size is larger and is a multiple of 4096?

Can we decide soon what the right thing should be?  I'm about to
release e2fsrogs 1.41.13, and if I should put in some sanity checking
code so mke2fs does something sane when it sees a 1M physical block
size, I can do that.

Or if the kernel is going to do that, it's fine too....

      	  	    	     	      	   - Ted
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