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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:04:50 +0100
From:      "Svein Skogen (Listmail Account)" <svein-listmail@stillbilde.net>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>, Thomas Backman <serenity@exscape.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
Subject:   Re: File system blocks alignment
Message-ID:  <4B446E52.4030508@stillbilde.net>
In-Reply-To: <86637fjypj.fsf@ds4.des.no>
References:  <65036.1262386032@critter.freebsd.dk>	<201001020101.16450.pieter@degoeje.nl> <86637fjypj.fsf@ds4.des.no>

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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> writes:
>> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
>>> Ideally, newfs/UFS should do a quick test to look for any obvious
>>> boundaries, and DTRT, a nice little task for somebody :-)
>> A search for the offset for which newfs (or a simpler test) runs
>> fastest?  Interesting idea :-)
> 
> Or just default to 4 kB or even 8 kB, which has zero performance impact
> (either way) for disks with 512 B sectors.

I'd like it to be tunable. Makes life so much easier for those of us who
run raid controllers with adjustable stripe sizes. ;)

//Svein

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