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

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On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 07:23:01 -0500
"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 768 I don't know, the other two though would provide proper 
> stripe-alignment on a 8 or 14 disk hardware RAID6 setup using 512
> byte sectors (that is, one stripe in BTRFS would span the full array).
> 
> I personally think it should be restricted to multiples of 512, as
> that is the smallest sector size on any disk drive that is
> realistically usable with BTRFS.  That would also provide 4k support,
> and beyond that 64k (which is where the really big drives are headed
> anyway), and also provide the ability to get proper stripe alignment
> on almost any hardware RAID configuration.

Alright, I guess that makes the implementation slightly easier. I will
implement it as only multiples of 512.

Thanks for you input everyone.
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