Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f5SDhdR24840 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:43:39 -0700 Received: from d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com (d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com [195.212.91.199]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5SDhcV24833 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 06:43:38 -0700 Received: from d12relay02.de.ibm.com (d12relay02.de.ibm.com [9.165.215.23]) by d12lmsgate.de.ibm.com (1.0.0) with ESMTP id PAA333524 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:43:28 +0200 Received: from d12ml014.de.ibm.com (d12ml014_cs0 [9.165.223.55]) by d12relay02.de.ibm.com (8.11.1m3/NCO v4.96) with ESMTP id f5SDhSG110528 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:43:29 +0200 Subject: Contraint to Blksize 512? To: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.7 March 21, 2001 Message-ID: From: "Holger Smolinski" Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:37:01 +0200 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on D12ML014/12/M/IBM(Release 5.0.6 |December 14, 2000) at 28/06/2001 15:41:01 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Hello, I tried to use XFS with devices of sector sizes larger than 512 Byte and failed. Apparently there are dependencies to a fixed blocksize of 512 Byte all over the code of XFS. Are these contraints unavoidable by the design of XFS or could you imagine running an XFS e.g. on a device with 4k blocksize and what needs to be done to the code in order to do so? Gruesse / Regards Dr. Holger Smolinski -- Linux for eServer Development, IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH, Schoenaicher Str. 220, D-71032 Boeblingen Phone/FAX: +49 7031 16 (x902) - 4652/3456