On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
quoted text
> There is *no* valid reason for 16kB blocksizes unless you have legacy 
> issues.

That's not correct.

quoted text
> The performance issues have nothing to do with the block-size, and 

We must be thinking of different performance issues.

quoted text
> should be solvable by just making sure that your stupid "state of the
> art" 
> crap SCSI controller gets contiguous physical memory, which is best
> done 
> in the read-ahead code. 

SCSI controllers have nothing to do with improving ondisk layout, which
is the performance issue I've been referring to.

cheers.

--
Nathan

-
unsubscribe notice
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/