Re: TAKE - XFS multiple blocksize support

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Steve Lord wrote:

> This allows Linux XFS to support filesystem blocksizes of less than
> a page. So powers of 2 from 512bytes to 4Kbytes on an ia32. It also
> switches more of the xfs I/O path to use the generic code used by
> other filesystems, the write path is still specific to XFS, but this
> too should change over time.

Does the change of IO path affect the performance or features in any way?

James Rich
james@xxxxxxxxxxxxx