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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:45:22 -0700
From: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
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To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
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Subject: Re: Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size?
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Dave Chinner wrote:
>
>> 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.
---
    Good idea,  though.. I wanted to set it for the whole "disk"(array)
as it (multiple 4T drives) will be subdivided into multiple filesystems
and have lvm and a partition table under the file system(s),
so telling the kernel to only do 4K alloc+io's to the whole thing
would cover the most with the least.


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