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While your criticisms about what the author's explanation lacks or does not consider are appreciated, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for you to put for
by akanet 10y ago
While your criticisms about what the author's explanation lacks or does not consider are appreciated, I think this is a wonderful opportunity for you to put forth your own understanding! I know very little about the topic and thus found the article interesting. I would happily learn more.
- ars 10y agoLarger blocksizes are faster, but take more memory and interleave badly with other tasks since they are all-or-nothing. A large block can take a while and nothing else can read or write while it's running. That's about it. You want a blocksize sized so that it takes around 10 ms to write to disk. So around 128K to 1MB, depending on the underlying hardware.