[PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

[Steve French]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com> wrote:
> preferred minimum IO size (mp->m_readio_log/mp->m_writeio_log)

This discussion about i/o sizes is very interesting.   For network
file system (at least for SMB2 to all known servers, and
for cifs mounts to Samba, but probably for recent NFS), ideal i/o
sizes are often well over a megabyte ... but how to indicate that to
the application...

> That's why I'd prefer specific optimal IO hints - we don't have to
> overload st_blksize with lots of meanings to pass what is relatively
> trivial information back to the application.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner

Yes.




-- 
Thanks,

Steve