Re: ATA 4 KiB sector issues.

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/14/2010 07:26 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>>
>> Yes, but it does squat for a flash disk that wants, say, 256K alignment.
> 
> 4K makes sense. 256K not so much.
> 
> 256K alignment is hard to swallow for a lot of reasons anyway.
> Unless the filesystem packs small files into blocks a-la reiserfs,
> 256K block filesystems will be very inefficient for a typical
> storage scenarios.
> 

Noone has talked about using 256K filesystem blocks.  The fact of the
matter, though, is that both flash and RAID have much larger alignment
requirements than a mere 4K for optimal performance.

You might not like it, but that's the way it is.

	-hpa


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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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