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Re: Blocksizes

To: sandeen@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Blocksizes
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 23:59:26 +0200 (CEST)
Cc: ude@xxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3B28D384.9A10753C@sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 sandeen@xxxxxxx wrote:

> Sebastian Ude wrote:
> > 
> > Does XFS for Linux still only support blocksizes equal to a pagesize (4096
> > bytes / 4k on ix86) ?
> 
> Yes
>  
> > If yes, are there plans to work on this problem ?

Smaller then page size will be failry soon (think months).
This is also neccesary to mount Irix disks with 512 byte clusters.

Larger then page size is pushed ahed for somewhere in 2.5 whenever that
is. Much code involved and the kernel needs to be enlightend in this case.

> Yes, it is on the TODO list, but I'm afraid I can't really give you a
> good idea of when it might be done...

Seth


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