On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 02:33:39AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Only very small changes would be needed to have ext2 support 8k blocks
> on an Alpha. Howeever, such a filesystem wouldn't be currently
> supported on am i386 machine. It's simply changing some check codes in
> e2fsprogs and in the ext2 kernel code.
Which leads to to a related question:
Does the buffer cache support a larger block size than page size?
If I create a driver for a block device which is fixed to 32k blocksize, will
the buffer cache handle that? If not, how much effort would be needed to
make it work?
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