Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2014-01-22

Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] really large storage sectors - going beyond 4096 bytes

From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Date: 2014-01-22 20:57:01
Also in: linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, linux-scsi, lkml

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"James" == James Bottomley [off-list ref] writes:
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or even (not today, but some day) reject the IO.
James> I really doubt this.  All 4k drives today do RMW ... I don't see
James> that changing any time soon.

All consumer grade 4K phys drives do RMW.

It's a different story for enterprise drives. The vendors appear to be
divided between 4Kn and 512e with RMW mitigation.

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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