Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] forcealign for xfs

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Sep 22 2024 - 23:33:20 EST


On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 12:57:32PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Ok, but that's not going to be widespread. Very little storage
> hardware out there supports atomic writes - the vast majority of
> deployments will be new hardware that will have mkfs run on it.

Just about every enterprise NVMe SSD supports atomic write size
larger than a single LBA, because it is completely natural fallout
from FTL deѕign. That beeing said to support those SSDs a block
size of 16 or 32k would be a lot more natural than all the forcealign
madness.