[Linux-cluster] FS Block Size Limit

[Mike Fedyk]

Ken Preslan wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 12:15:30PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>I remember some threads on LKML about larger page sizes on x86.
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>>Not sure on the current status, but you'll want to look into "page cluster".
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>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?
>
Yes, I'm thinking of something else.