[dm-devel] dm-thin

[Zdenek Kabelac]

Dne 21.10.2014 v 03:36 lilofile napsal(a):
> In dm-thin.c,
> /*
>   * The block size of the device holding pool data must be
>   * between 64KB and 1GB.
>   */
> #define DATA_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_MIN_SECTORS (64 * 1024 >> SECTOR_SHIFT)
> #define DATA_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_MAX_SECTORS (1024 * 1024 * 1024 >> SECTOR_SHIFT)
>
> why the block size must be between 64KB and 1GB, can I change  the value of DATA_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_MIN_SECTORS? what effect  if the value of DATA_DEV_BLOCK_SIZE_MIN_SECTORS<128?


Performance reasons mainly - updating metadata much more frequently is 
lowering the throughput considerable.

The other issue is you would also scale up required metadata size.

Zdenek