[DGD] minimum sector size tweaking

Felix A. Croes felix at dworkin.nl
Mon Apr 29 12:10:22 CEST 2013


Raymond Jennings <shentino at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been tinkering with the minimum sector size setting in config.c and
> bumped it down to 128 for now.
>
> I'm aware of some header information that is confined to the first sector,
> which is why I didn't shrink it much beyond that.
>
> How small is safe?  I'm thinking 512 is a lower bound for efficiency
> reasons, but is it actually dangerous to go below that?

It depends on the host platform.  You can use binary search to find out.

Regards,
Felix Croes



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