On 01/05/2015 08:23 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > On Sunday, January 04, 2015 21:52:51 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> On 01/04/2015 06:56 PM, Hillel Lubman wrote: > >> ... > >> > when creating XFS partitions on hybrid (512e) > >> ... > >> > Can you please clarify what after all is the recommended sector size for > >> > such drives > >> ... > >> > >> XFS sectsz is unimportant with these drives. What matters is that any > >> partitions you create start and end on 4KB boundaries. > > > > Thanks. So there shouldn't be any negative impact either if sectz is set > to 4 KB? Again, as long as your partitions are 4KB aligned. > In one particular case I experience some perceived slowness on > 2 TB WD drive (and I created XFS partition on that drive using sectz as > 4 KB). Likely due to a misaligned partition. In this case many XFS IOs are going to cause RMW in two adjacent hardware (4KB) disk sectors as each XFS block overlaps two sectors. This may significantly hamper drive performance. > I didn't test however how it compares to default settings on the > same drive which would set it to 512 B. As long as your underlying partition is 4KB aligned the only advantage you'll likely see with 4B sectsz is a little faster log IO. So for non metadata heavy workloads you won't see any difference between 512B and 4KB sectsz. Stan _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
