> So sometimes 1K blocks or file tail packing (like in UFS or reiserfs)
> are a good idea. Unfortunately both are somewhat discouraged in 2.3 (the
> new IO paths seem to be heavily optimized for page sized IO only)
BSD is also heavily optimised for page sized I/O, and it doesn't seem to cause
them problems. The cases it goes silly on are all intentionally stupid ones
like writing synchronous a byte at a time to disk.
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