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Message-ID: <48457AFA.6000700@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:10:18 -0500
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To: Thomas King <kingttx@...slinux.homelinux.org>
CC: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Block size limited to Linux page size?
Thomas King wrote:
> To fill in one piece of information, I'm reading the maximum block size can be
> limited by the Linux page size, 4K on x86. Is this true in ext4?
>
> I know this is a basic question, so thanks for humoring me.
> Tom King
Generally, yes.
There are patches:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/largeblocksize/4/patches/
but I'm not sure what the current state of all that is, honestly...
Before it's discussed as a limitation though it'd be interesting to see
some recent benchmarks on how much it might actually matter.
>From some reports:
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Large_Blocksize_Performance
it may indeed help.
-Eric
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