Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759024AbXISDoA (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:44:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753057AbXISDnu (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:43:50 -0400 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:51016 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753280AbXISDnt (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:43:49 -0400 Message-ID: <46F09A80.8020605@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:41:52 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Christoph Lameter , Mel Gorman , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , William Lee Irwin III , David Chinner , Jens Axboe , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, hugh@veritas.com, joern@lazybastard.org Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) References: <20070911060349.993975297@sgi.com> <200709161853.12050.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709181116.22573.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20070918191853.GB7541@v2.random> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 704 Lines: 19 On 09/18/2007 09:44 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Nobody sane would *ever* argue for 16kB+ blocksizes in general. Well, not so sure about that. What if one of your expected uses for example is video data storage -- lots of data, especially for multiple streams, and needs still relatively fast machinery. Why would you care for the overhead af _small_ blocks? Okay, maybe that's covered in the "in general" but its not extremely oddball either... Rene. - 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/