Re: impact of 4k sector size on the IO & FS stack

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On Mar 11 2007 18:51, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>
> During the recent IO/FS workshop, we spoke briefly about the
> coming change to a 4k sector size for disks on linux. If I
> recall correctly, the general feeling was that the impact was
> not significant since we already do most file system IO in 4k
> page sizes and should be fine as long as we partition drives
> correctly and avoid non-4k aligned partitions.

Sorry about jumping right in, but what about an 'old-style'
partition table that relies on 512 as a unit?

> Are there other concerns in the IO or FS stack that we should
> bring up with vendors?  I have been asked to summarize the
> impact of 4k sectors on linux for a disk vendor gathering and
> want to make sure that I put all of our linux specific items
> into that summary...

Jan
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