On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:15:30PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: > >Linux filesystems can't have block sizes greater than the machine's > >page size. For x86 and x86_64 that's 4096 bytes. I've seen 16k pages > >on a IA64 box, so you can go larger there. > > > I remember some threads on LKML about larger page sizes on x86. > > Not sure on the current status, but you'll want to look into "page cluster". There are huge pages, meaning you can configure some subset of the pages in a system to be a lot bigger than default (4MB on x86 boxes). I don't think that helps filesystem block sizes any. Or were you thinking of something else? -- Ken Preslan <kpreslan@xxxxxxxxxx>
