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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Anish Srivastava <anish@bidorbuyindia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File BlockSize
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 23:52:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020212075203.GF767@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002e01c1b397$1a26d270$3c00a8c0@baazee.com>
In-Reply-To: <002e01c1b397$1a26d270$3c00a8c0@baazee.com>

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.

Cheers,
Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-12  7:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-12  7:30 File BlockSize Anish Srivastava
2002-02-12  7:52 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-02-12  7:55   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-16  7:23   ` Hans Reiser
2002-02-18 21:14     ` Mike Fedyk
2002-02-12 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 20:57   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12 22:00     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-12 22:25       ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 22:16         ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-13  0:36     ` Daniel Phillips

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