Adam wrote: >Depends. 1K blocks will be slower but less wasteful of >space if you have lots of files smaller than 4K.
For SCSI devices, I would agree with you. For eckd devices, the overhead on 1K blocks is tremendous so what you make up from "small" files is lost to eckd overhead. Also, for eckd devices, the transfer overhead of moving 1k blocks is greater than the moving 4k blocks. I would suggest that, as long as you have eckd devices, 4k is better than 1k formatted devices. ===== Jim Sibley RHCT, Implementor of Linux on zSeries "Computer are useless.They can only give answers." Pablo Picasso __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
