Re: File BlockSize

William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12T20:58:08Z

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Going to a block size bigger than page size causes all sorts of fun with
> allocation failures if there are not two pages free adjacent to one another
> when allocating, and isn't really worth the cost.

This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more
worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that?

Cheers,
Bill