Jordi Ros wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to bring up a hard drive formated to 8KB page size using ext2.
> It seems that i may need to recompile the kernel, as default
PAGE_SIZE is 4KB. I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) What is the procedure to build a kernel that can support hard drives formatted to 8KB ext2?
Build it for one of those architectures that actually have 8k pages, and
run on that sort of machine. Nobody has made a 8k page linux
for i386 or other 4k-page architectures. It is possible, but a lot
of work because the cpu don't support it.
> 2) What is the procedure to format a hard drive to 8KB ext2?
From man mke2fs:
mke2fs -b 8192 /dev/disc...
Of course you won't be able to mount it on a machine with 4k pages.
Helge Hafting
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