Re: btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-05-01 Thread Hubert Kario
On Tuesday 01 of May 2012 18:04:25 Martin wrote: > Are 16kByte blocks/sectors useful to btrfs? > > Or rather, can btrfs usefully use 16kByte blocks? Yes, and they are already supported using -l and -n flags: mkfs.btrfs -l $((4*4096)) -n $((4*4096)) /dev/sda1 You can set sector size to 16kb but

Re: btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-05-01 Thread Martin
Looking at this again from some time ago... Brief summary: There is a LOT of nefarious cleverness being attempted by SSD manufacturers to accommodate a 4kByte block size. Get that wrong, or just be unsympathetic to that 'cleverness', and you suffer performance degradation and/or premature device

Re: btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-02-10 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Martin, Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012 schrieb Martin: > My understanding is that for x86 architecture systems, btrfs only > allows a sector size of 4kB for a HDD/SSD. That is fine for the > present HDDs assuming the partitions are aligned to a 4kB boundary for > that device. > > However for SSD

Re: btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-02-09 Thread Martin
On 09/02/12 01:42, Liu Bo wrote: > On 02/09/2012 03:24 AM, Martin wrote: [ No problem for 4kByte sector HDDs. However, for SSDs... ] >> However for SSDs... >> >> I'm using for example a 60GByte SSD that has: >> >> 8kB page size; >> 16kB logical to physical mapping chunk size; >> 2MB e

Re: btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-02-08 Thread Liu Bo
On 02/09/2012 03:24 AM, Martin wrote: > My understanding is that for x86 architecture systems, btrfs only allows > a sector size of 4kB for a HDD/SSD. That is fine for the present HDDs > assuming the partitions are aligned to a 4kB boundary for that device. > > However for SSDs... > > I'm using f

btrfs support for efficient SSD operation (data blocks alignment)

2012-02-08 Thread Martin
My understanding is that for x86 architecture systems, btrfs only allows a sector size of 4kB for a HDD/SSD. That is fine for the present HDDs assuming the partitions are aligned to a 4kB boundary for that device. However for SSDs... I'm using for example a 60GByte SSD that has: 8kB page siz