Re: Accessing odd last partition sector (was: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] mkntfsdirty volume marking)

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 2.4 logics around block size handling is broken; we probably could backport
> that series of patches, though.  2.6 simply sets block size to GCD(page size,
> device size), so we don't have to worry about all that crap.

That's great! 

Just one question, in the most common cases the block size ends up between
512 and 4096 bytes. Depending on how this block size used, it can have a
significant impact on performance (e.g. 512 vs 4096). Is this true or is
it used to be performance independent?

	Szaka

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