Re: Large block sizes support in Linux

2024-03-25 Thread Pankaj Raghav
Hi Tomas and Bruce, >>> My knowledge of Postgres internals is limited, so I'm wondering if there >>> are any optimizations or potential optimizations that Postgres could >>> leverage once we have LBS support on Linux? >> >> We have discussed this in the past, and in fact in the early years we >> t

Re: Large block sizes support in Linux

2024-03-25 Thread Pankaj Raghav
Hi Thomas, On 23/03/2024 05:53, Thomas Munro wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 10:56 PM Pankaj Raghav (Samsung) > wrote: >> My team and I have been working on adding Large block size(LBS) >> support to XFS in Linux[1]. Once this feature lands upstream, we will be >> ab

Re: Large block sizes support in Linux

2024-03-25 Thread Pankaj Raghav
On 23/03/2024 03:41, Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 10:31:11PM +0100, Tomas Vondra wrote: >> Right, but things change over time - current storage devices support >> much larger sectors (LBA format), usually 4K. And if you do I/O with >> this size, it's usually atomic. >> >> AFAIK if

Large block sizes support in Linux

2024-03-22 Thread Pankaj Raghav (Samsung)
ons that Postgres could leverage once we have LBS support on Linux? [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-xfs/20240313170253.2324812-1-ker...@pankajraghav.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar72r5Xf7x4 -- Pankaj Raghav