I surrender and yet again realize i have boring hardware. :-P
Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2013-07-13, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote:
>> A few years ago, after someone said basically the same thing
>(actually,
>> I think it was more emphatic -- as in, "it is impossible to see gains
>> beyond ..."), I played with it and saw significant gains well beyond
>> bs=64k for raw devices. I'd be surprised if individual experience
>> didn't vary, though.
>
>Larger block sizes can be far faster for flash-based storage.