Re: xfs block size

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 10:45:17AM -0700, Davida, Joe wrote:
>       On the web page you sited, I read:
> 
> "...We are using pages to cache metadata, pages are
> allocated one at a time, so each page sized chunk
> of memory usually is not adjacent in the address
> space to the page covering the next block of the
> disk."
> 
>       How does FreeBSD's UFS let you mkfs filesystems
>       with 16K FS pagesize? It is on same X86 architecture
>       as Linux!

But it is not Linux.  They do organize things differently.
(Linux UFS support larger blocks too, but it seems pretty b0rken
currently)

        Christoph
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