> That's not really correct. XFS also uses the uses filesystem blocks > just like ext2/3/4 for almost everything, data and metadata. > > However, the XFS journal format has requirements for detecting torn > writes in journal recovery and hence needs to know the sector size > of the log device (i.e. the minimum guaranteed atomic IO size). The > key metadata in each AG (the AG headers) are also sector sized so > that they don't get corrupted by torn writes, either, so XFS also > needs to know the sector size of the data device if is using. This perfectly explains why it makes sense for xfs.mkfs to have sectorsize option and why this is not required for ext4. And next time I will keep in mind to include xfs list too in cc while asking such a question. Thanks, Ashish -- 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
