Jim ...

Looking back over old presentations I found it.
Your logical blocksize can be greater than physical blocksize,
but the reverse is not true.   Logical blocksize smaller than physical
doesn't work.   Last I knew,  this was a VFS issue in the kernel,
not specific to any filesystem type.

                logical > physical = okay
                logical < physical != okay

And it can be a real problem.
If you 'dd' a filesystem from one type of media to another,
it may prove unmountable.   I have not tried this,  but I would
imagine that 'dd' a 1K logical EXT2 from a floppy to zSeries DASD
would probably not work.   I'll hafta check that and get back to you.

-- R;

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