ReiserFS(v3,v4) vs. Ext3

Barry K. Nathan barryn at pobox.com
Mon Apr 12 18:13:53 UTC 2004


On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 08:49:18PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
[quote reformatted to reduce width]
> The only thing to note with XFS is that it's strongly recommended
> that you use a 512 byte block size.

Where did you find that recommendation?

The closest thing I've found to an XFS block size recommendation is
this, which generally suggests 4K blocks for filesystems greater than
100MB in size:
http://www.cray.com/craydoc/manuals/S-2377-22/html-S-2377-22/z1029460436.html

Also, the default block size is 4K.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn at pobox.com>





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