On Thursday 31 March 2011 08:45:24 Yioryos Asprobounitis wrote: > > I was wondering if it makes any sense when making an ext fs on an SDcard > to try to align the erase block of the card with the ext2 group size. > eg assuming a card with a 4KB pages and 4MB erase blocks, try something > like `mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -g 1024' > Could it offer any speed advantage in garbage collection or just tax the > file system with the keep-up of 1000 groups (for a 4GB card)? > (If I got it all wrong, please explain :-)
In theory, it should help to do this, and I've had the same idea. However, I haven't seen anyone back it up with numbers, and it may as well have the opposite effect because of something I haven't thought of. What kind of card do you use specifically? Arnd _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel