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Re: Can I make my blocksize > 4k during mkfs.xfs?

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Can I make my blocksize > 4k during mkfs.xfs?
From: Austin Gonyou <austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04 Jun 2002 14:52:28 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1023218591.6937.52.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Organization: Coremetrics, Inc.
References: <1023218591.6937.52.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com>
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On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:23, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:24, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > I would like to have 8k blocks..instead of 4k blocks. I didn't see
> > anything in the manpages..and I'm assuming it's not possible..but I
> > thought I'd ask. I want to try to do a 1:1 test with Veritas.
> 
> 
> Only if you have hardware with a page size of 8K or greater, want
> to buy an ia64 box?

Well...regardless of this..I've got a larger problem..and I think it's
that I need to patch my kernel for LVM 1.1.x, cause ATM, regardless of
-b size=8192 during mkfs, I cannot mount the volume which has been
formatted. 



> Steve
> 
> 
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
Phone: 512-698-7250
email: austin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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