Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:12:18 +1000 | From | Nathan Scott <> | Subject | Re: file system block size |
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 11:22:27AM +0530, Roushan Ali wrote: > Hi All, > we want to write a new file system with block size more than > 4KB. Can anyone suggest us how should we proceed ?
With great difficulty. ;)
There is really no support for this in the generic page cache code in the kernel, and you'd probably need some mechanism for doing multi-page metadata IOs. There's been sporadic discussion on fs-devel and linux-xfs in the past on this topic - you could search those archives for details.
cheers.
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