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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
	Anish Srivastava <anish@bidorbuyindia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edward@thebsh.namesys.com
Subject: Re: File BlockSize
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:14:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020218211453.GA20336@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002e01c1b397$1a26d270$3c00a8c0@baazee.com> <20020212075203.GF767@holomorphy.com> <3C6E08FB.7030308@namesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C6E08FB.7030308@namesys.com>

On Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 10:23:39AM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:
> 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.

I believe that is _page cache_ size instead of PAGE_SIZE.  Though,
page_cache_size is based on PAGE_SIZE...

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

And ext2 and ext3 and ...

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-18 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-12  7:30 File BlockSize Anish Srivastava
2002-02-12  7:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12  7:55   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-16  7:23   ` Hans Reiser
2002-02-18 21:14     ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2002-02-12 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 20:57   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-02-12 22:00     ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-12 22:25       ` Alan Cox
2002-02-12 22:16         ` Rik van Riel
2002-02-13  0:36     ` Daniel Phillips

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