RE: blocksize > 4K in ext2 ?

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Tue, 26 May 1998 18:19:27 +0200 (MET DST)


On Sun, 24 May 1998, A. Mahjur wrote:

> 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.

This won't help you much, since the current memory allocator
isn't good enough to continuously hand out 8kB pieces (except
on Alpha, that is).
I will be working on a zone allocator though, when that is
finished, this will be a much more feasible thing to do.

Rik.
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