Different block sizes for partition and underlying logical disk on HP Raid Controller (Linux)

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Published on 2012-09-18T11:41:47Z Indexed on 2012/09/27 3:39 UTC
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Following links collected in this thread I started to check blockdev and found the following output indicating different sizes for partition c0d9p1 and the underlying device (c0d9):

[root@machine ~]# blockdev --report /dev/cciss/c0d9
RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ   StartSec     Size    Device
rw   256   512  4096          0 3906963632  /dev/cciss/c0d9
[root@machine ~]# blockdev --report /dev/cciss/c0d9p1 
RO    RA   SSZ   BSZ   StartSec     Size    Device
rw   256   512  2048          1 3906959039  /dev/cciss/c0d9p1

We have a lot of small files, so yes the block size is smaller than normal. The device is a logical driver on an HP P410 raid controller, simple disk without any raid - RAID 0 on one disk to be precise. (Please note that above configuration is a feature not a bug).

Therefore, I have the following questions.

  1. Can the above discrepancy in the block size affect disk performance?
  2. Can I control the block size using hpacucli?

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