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Re: blocksizes



On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 10:59:37PM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> It still wouldn't be perfect. Block size is one thing, block alignment
> the next. A filesystem with 1k blocks (filesystem units == clusters)
> has problems to work on disks with 2k blocks (device units == sectors).
> The only solution is expensive buffering and read-modify-write updates.

Aren't we in fact going to run into this with 512-byte FFS fragments
and disks with 4K sectors?



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