The fixed blocksize is per LU. Different LU's can have different blocksizes, but they are currently determined automatically, based on the backing store for the LU.

On Apr 10, 2009, at Apr 10,1:15 PM, Sumit Gupta wrote:



>The heart of what I've discovered is that COMSTAR picks a block size based on the device behind it, and appears to *always* >issue IOs using that block size, no matter what the size of the requests coming in across the wire. If the block device is >zvol, it uses the zvol record size, which makes sense. If the block device behind it is a physical disk, or SVM volume, it >picks 512 bytes as the block size.

Do you mean the I/O to the COMSTAR's backend ? Or the blocksize of the device exposed to the SAN ?

Sumit


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