Re: TAKE - XFS multiple blocksize support

[Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 15:45, James Rich wrote:
> 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@chowhouse.com

I am interested in hearing reports, the loads I tried were within a few
percent, some improved, some not. There is more tweaking to do in this
area.

Steve