From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <lkml@tlinx.org>
Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size?
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 08:28:18 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140720222818.GM4453@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53CC0EAA.2010202@tlinx.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-20 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-20 18:47 Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size? Linda A. Walsh
2014-07-20 22:28 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-07-21 20:45 ` Linda Walsh
2014-07-23 13:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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