RE: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ?

A. Mahjur (mahjur@peik.bol.sharif.ac.ir)
Sun, 24 May 1998 00:20:13 +0430


The buffer cache has no problem. All must be done, is changing some tables in the buffer.c
The ext2fs also can easily changed to use 8K or more block size.

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From: Rik van Riel
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 5:14 PM
To: Chris Wedgwood
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ?

On Wed, 20 May 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 1998 at 08:58:48AM +0200, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > On May 19, Rik van Riel wrote:
> > > Currently, the buffercache only handles buffers up to 4k in
> > > size and the memory allocation algorithm doesn't handle
> > > the handing out of larger (>1 page) chunks very well.
> >
> > then, would it be possible to use 8k ext2 on AXP, as AXP uses 8k pages ?
>
> or 32k on the ARM?

I don't think the buffer and memory subsystems will have
any difficulties handling this. (could be wrong about
the buffers though ;)

Then 'all that needs to be done' is adapting part of
ext2fs...

Rik.
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