Reads? Maybe. Writes are an other matter. Namely the overhead associated with turning a large write into a lot of small writes. (Checksums for example.)

Jeremy Teo wrote:
Hello all,

Isn't a large block size a simple case of prefetching? In other words,
if we possessed an intelligent prefetch implementation, would there
still be a need for large block sizes? (Thinking aloud)

:)


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