Re: File BlockSize

Hans Reiser
2002-02-16T16:22:16Z

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>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
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I should be more precise, on alpha you can do it with reiserfs.

Hans