On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > There is *no* valid reason for 16kB blocksizes unless you have legacy > issues. That's not correct. > The performance issues have nothing to do with the block-size, and We must be thinking of different performance issues. > should be solvable by just making sure that your stupid "state of the > art" > crap SCSI controller gets contiguous physical memory, which is best > done > in the read-ahead code. SCSI controllers have nothing to do with improving ondisk layout, which is the performance issue I've been referring to. cheers. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
