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From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Anish Srivastava <anish@bidorbuyindia.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, edward@thebsh.namesys.com
Subject: Re: File BlockSize
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 10:23:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C6E08FB.7030308@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <002e01c1b397$1a26d270$3c00a8c0@baazee.com> <20020212075203.GF767@holomorphy.com>

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



  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-16 16:22 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 [this message]
2002-02-18 21:14     ` Mike Fedyk
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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