From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
scott thomason <scott-kernel@thomasons.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bio too big device
Date: 12 Mar 2003 16:14:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1047485697.22696.23.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030312090943.GA3298@suse.de>
On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 09:09, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12 2003, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> >
> > So lets dirty list the one drive by Paul G. and be done.
> > Can we do that?
>
> Who cares, really? There's not much point in doing it, we're talking 248
> vs 256 sectors in reality. I think it's a _bad_ idea, lets just keep it
> at 255 and avoid silly drive bugs there.
255 trashes your performance, 128 will perform far better with most
setups. This is especially true with raid setups. I'd much rather we
got the IDE layer using 256 block writes even if we have to limit it
to more modern drives by some handwaving (8Gb+ say)
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-12 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-12 2:55 scott thomason
2003-03-12 3:17 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 8:18 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 3:37 ` Neil Brown
2003-03-12 3:49 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 8:30 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 5:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 8:47 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 8:59 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 8:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 9:01 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 9:09 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 10:07 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-03-12 10:14 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 15:44 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 15:51 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:02 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-12 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 16:14 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 19:05 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 19:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-03-12 22:20 ` John Bradford
2003-03-12 21:28 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-03-14 11:19 ` Paul Gortmaker
2003-03-12 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 14:54 ` scott thomason
2003-03-12 14:58 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-03-12 15:11 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 17:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-03-12 16:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-03-12 18:19 Manfred Spraul
2003-03-12 21:40 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <20030416172122.M65357@gw>
[not found] ` <20030416181944.M32238@gw>
2003-04-16 18:32 ` Anders Larsson
2003-04-17 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-16 18:43 Mudama, Eric
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