I have an iSCSI application which takes blocks of data from SCSI. I want the blocks to be as large as possible, atleast for me to see the performance of the iSCSI protocol. I intend to keep every thing in multiples of larger block sizes. Can I change it by changing the parameters in the kernel, like PAGE_SIZE(followed by block size) for ext2 ?(The approach seems very naive !!) Sai --- Ribamar Santarosa de Sousa <ribamar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 01:35:34AM -0700, sai > narasimhamurthy wrote: > > Hi , > > Is it possible to set block sizes of disk > partitions > > in the recent linux kernels beyond 4K? (say 8K) > The > > standard user commands (like mke2fs) has options > only > > to set the block sizes upto 4K. > > > > Is there a kernel hack that can to be done > somewhere? > > > > Why you need to set block beyond 4k? -- AFAIK 4k is > the optimized value > for a block ( http://www.freeos.com/articles/3912 ), > at least in ext2. > Well, you could be wanting just for tests and that's > ok; not sure, > but i think using more than 4k in ext2 will require > heavy hacking (why > not using another fs?)... > > -Riba > > > > Sai > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the > Linux kernel. > > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux > kernel. > Archive: > http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Express yourself with Y! Messenger! Free. Download now. http://messenger.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
