Re: [Iometer-user] Maximum disk size in sectors

[Ming Z. <mi...@el...>]

On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 09:58 -1000, Ching, Jimen (US SSA) wrote:
> > sorry that i have to know the OS.
> > 
> > if it is Linux, then this is because that for Linux, file 
> > system block size will be 4KB probably in your case. iometer 
> > does not want to send out a request that is not aligned at 
> > 4KB. so iometer take 4KB as "sector size". yes, it is misleading.
> 
> Yes, I'm using Linux.
> 
> > so if you want to create a 2Gb file, u might need 2GB/4Kb 
> > instead as max sector size instead. 
> 
> Ok, thanks for the quick response.

we discussed about whether use 4KB or 512B for this field for a while
and then think not to send unaligned request is more important.

> 
> --jc