- Storage devices may report a preferred minimum I/O size,
- which is the smallest request the device can perform
- without incurring a read-modify-write penalty. For disk
- drives this is often the physical block size. For RAID
- arrays it is often the stripe chunk size.
+ Storage devices may report a granularity or preferred
+ minimum I/O size which is the smallest request the
+ device can perform without incurring a performance
+ penalty. For disk drives this is often the physical
+ block size. For RAID arrays it is often the stripe
+ chunk size. A properly aligned multiple of
+ minimum_io_size is the preferred request size for
+ workloads where a high number of I/O operations is
+ desired.