Re: [PATCH] BTRFS: Adds an option to select RAID Stripe size

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On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:43:35 +0100
Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2016-01-09 at 22:11 -0500, Sanidhya Solanki wrote:
> > I have also left the option to use an un-conventional stripe size to
> > the
> > user, for e.g., 768, 3072, 6144, etc.
> 
> Not sure whether it's such a good idea to allow this,... at least not
> without requiring some --force option.
> This seems to provoke all kinds of alignment issues,... also, but
> probably not limited to, for any loopdevices created on top of a
> btrfs.

I considered that, but, if you read the specification of modern HDDs
carefully, it states that they are 4K or 512e sector size compatible,
hence the concession. Also, older drive users may find this preferable.
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