Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 nov 14, 12:41:35, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Nowadays disks may hide this in their interface, but on the physical media (I'm thinking of spinning rusty platters), we still have to obey the laws of physics. Changing the magnetisation of a single spot is on neigh-impossible without

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thank for you detail update. can you please also share with your experience that. when i dstat i some time see wait time between 10-17 and at that time my system works slow. and my processor shows normal. what i have read about that wait values this is due to IO issues. now my question is how

Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Dear experts, i know its frustrating because i always ask theoretical question. i hope and believe you guyz will not mind and i really learn alot from this list. So, coming to the point, I want to clear my confusion on block size. theoretically i know what block size is but practically i dont

Re: Block size confusion.

2014-11-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 04:20:07PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear experts, i know its frustrating because i always ask theoretical question. i hope and believe you guyz will not mind and  i really learn alot from this list. So, coming to the point, I want to clear my confusion