Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 1998 14:44:28 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ? |
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 08:58:48AM +0200, Harald Koenig wrote: > > On May 19, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > Currently, the buffercache only handles buffers up to 4k in > > > size and the memory allocation algorithm doesn't handle > > > the handing out of larger (>1 page) chunks very well. > > > > then, would it be possible to use 8k ext2 on AXP, as AXP uses 8k pages ? > > or 32k on the ARM?
I don't think the buffer and memory subsystems will have any difficulties handling this. (could be wrong about the buffers though ;)
Then 'all that needs to be done' is adapting part of ext2fs...
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