From: "Olaf Frączyk" <olaf@cbk.poznan.pl>
To: L A Walsh <law@tlinx.org>
Cc: Stephen Lord <lord@sgi.com>, Linux-Xfs <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-Fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: block size in XFS = hard coded constant?
Date: 30 Sep 2002 14:07:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033387679.3719.5.camel@venus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKNPJLGIDJFAHGKMBIEIJCDAA.law@tlinx.org>
On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 10:55, L A Walsh wrote:
> Right -- I know it isn't the filesystem block size.
>
> In this day and age, it seems anachronistic. Given the 10% higher block
> density, not only would it yield higher capacities, but should yield higher
> transfer rates, no?
>
> I know it isn't a simple constant switch -- but I wouldn't want to switch
> constants since not all disks should be constrained to the same block size.
>
> Do other file systems have the same limitation? Are there any problems in the
> linux-kernel with non-512 byte blocks?
Hi,
DVD-RAM (2048 bytes block size) works well in linux.
I use ext2 for DVD-RAM.
Regards,
Olaf Fraczyk
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2002-09-30 12:07 ` Olaf Frączyk [this message]
2002-09-30 21:26 ` block size in XFS = hard coded constant? Nathan Scott
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