Re: fs block size and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-05-06T19:06:29Z

On Wed, 7 May 2003, David Chow wrote:

> size of 16k and above, I am wondering is it possible to implement an fs
> that has 16k block size on a 4k system which this fs can be used both
> on IA-32 and IA-64 systems. In other words, is it possible (or someone
> already done) to implement a file system that has 16k block size on a
> 4k paging system.

The new NTFS driver, in 2.5 or as a patch to 2.4.20, supports all
power of 2 block sizes between 512 bytes and 64kB.

Szaka