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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:41:52 +0200
From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>,
swin wang <wangswin@...il.com>, totty.lu@...il.com,
hugh@...itas.com, joern@...ybastard.org
Subject: Re: [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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