Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:06:52 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) |
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Nathan Scott wrote: > > FWIW (and I hate to let reality get in the way of a good conspiracy) - > all SGI systems have always defaulted to using 4K blocksize filesystems;
Yes. And I've been told that:
> there's very few customers who would use larger
.. who apparently would like to move to x86-64. That was what people implied at the kernel summit.
> especially as the Linux > kernel limitations in this area are well known. There's no "16K mess" > that SGI is trying to clean up here (and SGI have offered both IA64 and > x86_64 systems for some time now, so not sure how you came up with that > whacko theory).
Well, if that is the case, then I vote that we drop the whole patch-series entirely. It clearly has no reason for existing at all.
There is *no* valid reason for 16kB blocksizes unless you have legacy issues. The performance issues have nothing to do with the block-size, and should be solvable by just making sure that your stupid "state of the art" crap SCSI controller gets contiguous physical memory, which is best done in the read-ahead code.
So get your stories straight, people.
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