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Linux and 4K disk sectorsLinux and 4K disk sectorsPosted Mar 12, 2009 23:22 UTC (Thu) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)In reply to: Linux and 4K disk sectors by Thue Parent article: Linux and 4K disk sectors
Object storage? Meh. What makes you believe that disk firmware can do a better job of allocating blocks than a filesystem can?
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Linux and 4K disk sectors Posted Mar 13, 2009 10:47 UTC (Fri) by gnb (subscriber, #5132) [Link]
It does have the advantage of more information: it knows the real geometry of
the disk, as well as whether or not a given block is actually remapped to somewhere completely different. So *in principle* I can imagine it managing to allocate for better performance.
Linux and 4K disk sectors Posted Mar 13, 2009 20:37 UTC (Fri) by Thue (subscriber, #14277) [Link]
It would also give the hardware manufacturers total freedom to reimplement the hardware, which is generally a good feature of an interface.
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