> On Tue, 19 May 1998, Gabriele Grilli wrote:
>
> > In ext2 it's possible to do 1, 2 and 4 Kbyte blocks simply performing
> > mke2fs with -b 1024, -b 2048 or -b 4096.
> > I would like to know how modify the kernel such as I can use larger
> > blocks.
>
> You don't only need to modify the ext2 filesystem, but the
> buffercache and the memory allocation algorithm too...
>
> 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 ?
Harald
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