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

[Szakacsits Szabolcs]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, I'll test it in the near future unless somebody does it earlier. 

I have my test stuff but I'm interested of you could suggest specific ones
that might exhibit/trigger the overhead if it exists at all.

	Szaka

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