> The previously rule of thumb which I had used was that after doing a > random seek, the time needed to write 4k and 32k was pretty much in > the noise. But that was a number from several years ago. I suppose I > should do some quick experiments to see what is a good number these > days.... Indeed. fio to the rescue. I remember Christoph saying something about 64k somewhat recently? But, helpfully, I can't recall the details :). - z -- 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