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SubjectRe: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)
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On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 18:06 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> There is *no* valid reason for 16kB blocksizes unless you have legacy
> issues.

That's not correct.

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

We must be thinking of different performance issues.

> 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

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