Re: File BlockSize

William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12T07:52:47Z

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