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SubjectRe: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)
On 09/18/2007 09:44 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Nobody sane would *ever* argue for 16kB+ blocksizes in general.

Well, not so sure about that. What if one of your expected uses for example
is video data storage -- lots of data, especially for multiple streams, and
needs still relatively fast machinery. Why would you care for the overhead
af _small_ blocks?

Okay, maybe that's covered in the "in general" but its not extremely oddball
either...

Rene.

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