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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Anish Srivastava <anish@bidorbuyindia.com>
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Subject: Re: File BlockSize
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 01:00:07PM +0530, Anish Srivastava wrote:
> Hi!!
> Is there any way I can have 8K block sizes in ext2, reiserfs or ext3.
> I am trying to install Oracle on Linux with 8K DB_Block_size.
> But it gives me a Block size mismatch saying that the File BlockSize is only
> 4K
> Maybe, there is a kernel patch available which enables Linux to create 8K
> file blocks.
> Thanks in anticipation....

Unfortunately filesystem block sizes larger than PAGE_SIZE are unsupported.
I wish they were, though.

Cheers,
Bill
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