On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:52, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 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.
>
XFS will refuse to mount it. There is no support for a filesystem with
a blocksize larger than the system pagesize.
Steve
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