> around the time that 2.2 came out I was rebuilding my home machine and as
> I was using a large drive I decided to try formatting with 8K block sizes
> (as I have never had a system use more then 50% of the inodes) and I
> discovered that I could not boot from the drive!
As I understand it, the kernel won't be able to map files when the block size
is greater than the machine's page size. So your executables won't run.
[your quoting was upside down and needed trimming, BTW]
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