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Many IO benchmark tools (fio, dd, etc...) provide way to set block size.

Lets say that I change 4K to 64k and test read/write on mounted SATA disk. I will get higher data throughput in sequential case of course.

What exactly is influenced by this change, or better, does it really influence underlying file system block size?

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For dd, setting the block size simply tells dd how many bytes to read in each read-store-output cycle.

bs=nnn has no impact on filesystem block size, as dd operates on raw devices or binary files, treating input simply as a stream of bytes, and does not know about filesystems.

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