Re: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 20 May 1998 14:44:28 +0200 (MET DST)

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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