[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald L. Levin) writes:
> > What is the granularity with which AFS SOLARIS-based servers access
> > their disks ?
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> > Most BSD based systems and some SVID systems use an 8k block
> > size for reading from and writing to the disk. In other
> > environments the block size may range from 1k to 32k. Normal SunOS a\
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> > Solaris both use 8k blocking.
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> Does AFS change this ???
Yes and no. AFS doesn't change the underlying ufs, which still uses
the 8k/1k stuff. However since the cache mgrs (ie, the clients)
typically make requests using a chunk size of 64K, the server issues
reads/writes of 64K to the ufs.
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