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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 14:57:12 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1023220212.6923.59.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Coremetrics, Inc.
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On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 14:50, Steve Lord wrote:
...
> > > 
> > > 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.

Ahh..I seee....so IA32 cannot handle this at all?


> Steve
>  
> 
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Austin Gonyou
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Coremetrics, Inc.
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