From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Nov 26 10:28:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D1837B41B for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:28:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id fAQILiL69097; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:21:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:21:44 -0800 From: David Greenman To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Matthew Dillon , Kirk McKusick , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Using a larger block size on large filesystems Message-ID: <20011126102144.A68993@nexus.root.com> References: <200111241845.fAOIjM377587@apollo.backplane.com> <34669.1006787273@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34669.1006787273@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 05:07:53PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Do you agree with me that we'd benefit the largest number of >installations by targetting applications with MTA-like access on small >files? Given the radial density of modern disk drives, the amount of time needed to read an additional 8KB in a random access scenario is quite trivial - usually less than .25ms, making the total percentage increase in access time small enough to not be a significant concern. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message