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SubjectRe: [Lse-tech] Re: Preliminary results of using multiblock raw I/O
On Tue, Oct 23 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > request the lower level driver can handle. This is typically 127kB, for
> > SCSI it can be as much as 512kB currently and depending on the SCSI
>
> We really btw should make scsi default to 128K - otherwise all the raid
> stuff tends to go 127K, 1K, 127K, 1K and have to handle partial stripe
> read/writes

Fine with me, the major reason for doing 255 sectors and not 256 was IDE
of course... So feel free to change the default host max_sectors to 256.

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Jens Axboe

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