On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Chris Mason wrote:

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> Dave reported that XFS saw much higher write throughput with large
> blocksizes, but so far I'm seeing the most benefits during reads.

Dave's tests were done with an early large blocksize patchset that had 
issues with readahead. More recent versions have the fixes by Fengguang 
that address the issue.
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