On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> 1) Is it possible for block device to assume that it will alway get big
> requests (and aligned by big blocksize) ?
That is one of the key problems. We hope that Mel Gorman's antifrag work
will get us there.
> 2) Does metadata reading/writing occuress also using same big blocksize ?
It can if the filesystem decides to and sets up the order the mapping.
> 3 If so, How __bread/__getblk are affrected? Does returned buffer_head point
> to whole block ?
Correct.
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