From: Pierre C <lists@peufeu.com>
To: Greg Smith <greg@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Cc: jd@commandprompt.com, "Scott Marlowe" <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
Cc: Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org, "Ben Chobot" <bench@silentmedia.com>
Subject: Re: BBU Cache vs. spindles
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:12:08 +0100
Message-ID: <op.vm0zqifmeorkce@apollo13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201012010354.oB13sxQ08756@momjian.us>
References: <201012010354.oB13sxQ08756@momjian.us>
> Is that true? I have no idea. I thought everything was done at the
> 512-byte block level.
Newer disks (2TB and up) can have 4k sectors, but this still means a page
spans several sectors.
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