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Re: RE: (sector sizes > 512)

To: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: RE: (sector sizes > 512)
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
Date: 14 Aug 2002 10:04:23 -0500
Cc: "Amit Agrawal, Noida" <amitag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Seth - I think you're confusing filesystem block size with the sector
size, which is the smallest addressable unit on the disk...

As Steve pointed out, XFS -needs- a 512-byte sector size.  It can have
-filesystem- block sizes of 512, 1024, 2048... on up to the page size.

-Eric

On Wed, 2002-08-14 at 04:58, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 15:10 14-8-2002 +0530, Amit  Agrawal, Noida wrote:
> >No I mean sector sizes which are multiple of 512 i.e 1024 or 4096,  of a
> >logical device configured through volume management software.
> 
> Smaller then pagesize is no problem eg < 4096 on ia32.
> You need a recent CVS kernel for this to work. The 1.1 release does NOT 
> have support for this yet.

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