From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleg Drokin Subject: Re: different block sizes and badblocks Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:21:49 +0400 Message-ID: <20020620202149.B1336@namesys.com> References: <5.0.2.1.2.20020620135847.01c3bdb0@pop.tvnet.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20020620135847.01c3bdb0@pop.tvnet.hu> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Newsmail Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hello! On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 02:05:11PM +0100, Newsmail wrote: > I have two questions: I see that in reiserfsprogs 3.x.1c-pre5 we have the > option to make filesystem with different block sizes than the default 4096 > bytes. what does this mean? I can choose whatever blocksize I want? or it > has to be a multiple of 4096? actually as I heard if I have a filesystem Right now kernel lacks support for blocksize other than 4096 bytes. > the other question is about badblocks. we have badblock support in > reiserfsprogs 3.x.1c-pre5, but its disabled by default. Oleg, could you > give me some infos about it, how can I reenable it, or how does it work > actually? it would be really nice :) Right now badblocks support is disabled on purpose. It conflicts with savelinks and we have not decided how to solve that yet. But we will announce badblocks support once we think it is ready. Bye, Oleg