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Subject: Re: DFLTPHYS vs MAXPHYS
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    That isn't correct.  Locality of reference for adjacent data is very
>    important even if the filesystem only needs a small amount of data.

All I wanted to say, is that it is FS privilege to decide how much data 
it needs. But when it really needs a lot of data, they should be better 
transferred with smaller number of bigger transactions, without strict 
MAXPHYS limitation.

-- 
Alexander Motin