Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Nov 2001 12:33:14 +0100 (CET) | From | Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <> | Subject | Re: Large files and filesystem block size |
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> > I'm setting up a server serving large >=1GB files. I spoke to this guy > > that just finished his PhD on the subject > > (http://ConfMan.unik.no/~paalh/index2.html) , and he said he'd managed to > > increase the throughput by using a 64kB block size on the files system. > > This testing was done on NetBSD (as far as I can remember). > > > > Does anyone know of a file system that supports large files, large > > filesystems and large block sizes?
> Linux doesn't support larger block size than page size (ie. 4 KB on i386).
Is this limit the indepandant of file system type?
> > Does any of you have any theories if his practice in using larger block > > sizes will have the same impact on performance in Linux as it had in BSD?
> I think performance will improve but only for large files (but that's > probably what you want).
As I'm writing above, the files I'm talking of are typically 1-10GB. So yes - this is what I want.
roy -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
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