Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:55:56 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: File BlockSize |
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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....
On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 11:52:03PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Unfortunately filesystem block sizes larger than PAGE_SIZE are unsupported. > I wish they were, though.
Sorry -- I've been corrected elsewhere on this, and it's blocksizes greater than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE... and there is some plan to eventually allow a configurable PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.
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