Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:14:53 -0800 | From | Mike Fedyk <> | Subject | Re: File BlockSize |
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:23:39AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote: > William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:00:07PM +0530, Anish Srivastava wrote: > > > >>Hi!! > >>Is there any way I can have 8K block sizes in ext2, reiserfs or ext3. > >>I am trying to install Oracle on Linux with 8K DB_Block_size. > >>But it gives me a Block size mismatch saying that the File BlockSize is > >>only > >>4K > >>Maybe, there is a kernel patch available which enables Linux to create 8K > >>file blocks. > >>Thanks in anticipation.... > >> > > > >Unfortunately filesystem block sizes larger than PAGE_SIZE are unsupported. > >I wish they were, though.
I believe that is _page cache_ size instead of PAGE_SIZE. Though, page_cache_size is based on PAGE_SIZE...
> > > I should be more precise, on alpha you can do it with reiserfs. > > Hans
And ext2 and ext3 and ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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