Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 | Date | Tue, 18 Jan 2000 15:28:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> So sometimes 1K blocks or file tail packing (like in UFS or reiserfs) > are a good idea. Unfortunately both are somewhat discouraged in 2.3 (the > new IO paths seem to be heavily optimized for page sized IO only)
BSD is also heavily optimised for page sized I/O, and it doesn't seem to cause them problems. The cases it goes silly on are all intentionally stupid ones like writing synchronous a byte at a time to disk.
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