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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