On Monday 21 March 2011 19:03:09 Andreas Dilger wrote: > Note that mballoc was specifically designed to handle allocation > requests that are aligned on RAID stripe boundaries, so it should > be able to handle this for MMC as well. What is needed is to tell > the filesystem what the underlying alignment is. That can be done > at format time with mke2fs or afterward with tune2fs by using the > "-E stripe_width" option. Ah, that sounds useful. So would I set the stripe_width to the erase block size, and the block group size to a multiple of that? Does this also work in (rare) cases where the erase block size is not a power of two? Arnd -- 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
