AW: [HACKERS] 8192 BLCKSZ ?

I don't believe it's a performance issue, I believe it's that writes to blocks greater than 8k cannot be guaranteed 'atomic' by the operating system. Hence, 32k blocks would break the transactions system. (Or something like that - am I correct?) First, 8k are not atomic eighter. Second,

AW: [HACKERS] 8192 BLCKSZ ?

8k is the standard Unix file system disk transfer size. Are you sure ? I thought it was 4k on AIX and 2k on Sun. Andreas