Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:28:18 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size? |
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 11:47:06AM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote: > I have a hard disk with a "512e" sector size: emulated 512, really 4096. > > The disk returns a 512-byte size to drivers for compatibility. > > I can partition the disk and setup the allocation size > to 4096, but I'd like to tell the kernel to use a > virtual-size of 4096 for the sector as an additional > performance 'hint', so nothing will even try to use > smaller i/o's than that.
Just format the filesystem with 4k sector size.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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