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what is the relation between block size and IO?
I have been reading about disk recently which led me to 3 different doubts. And I am not able to link them together. Three different terms I am confused with are block size, IO and Performance.
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Filesystem Performance for LUKS Encrypted Volumes?
As you can format a LUKS volume with any filesystem you want, are certain filesystems better-suited to IO performance against an encrypted filesystem? Specifically, I'm wondering about a loop device ...
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How does Linux handle concurrent disk IO?
When a Linux server is serving many concurrent requests to read many different files, does it:
Seek to File_1, read the entire file, then seek to File_2, read the entire file, then seek to File_3, ...
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