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

[viro]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:23:47AM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
 
> 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?

Resulting requests are immediately merged anyway.  Yes, we get more bio
sitting on top of the merged request; however, it's heavily IO-dominated
and I would be surprised if you really saw any noticable overhead in that
situation.
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