Re: File BlockSize

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 02:52:03 EST


On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:00:07PM +0530, Anish Srivastava wrote:
> Hi!!
> Is there any way I can have 8K block sizes in ext2, reiserfs or ext3.
> I am trying to install Oracle on Linux with 8K DB_Block_size.
> But it gives me a Block size mismatch saying that the File BlockSize is only
> 4K
> Maybe, there is a kernel patch available which enables Linux to create 8K
> file blocks.
> Thanks in anticipation....

Unfortunately filesystem block sizes larger than PAGE_SIZE are unsupported.
I wish they were, though.

Cheers,
Bill
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