On Friday 14 February 2003 12:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just begun using JFS 1.1.1 with kernel 2.4.18 (Debian Woody). > > I note that block size is either 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 bytes and > that 4096 is the default. > > I looked at the man pages but didn't see an option to created a JFS > filesystem with a block size other than 4096. Is block size defined > in the source code, or have I missed something else?
JFS on Linux currently only supports a 4K block size. Support for smaller blocksizes has been on the todo list, but it hasn't been given a high priority. JFS on OS/2 and AIX does, however, support smaller block sizes. > I don't do mp3s, video, huge databases or anything else that requires > really large files (other than package files and kernel source > tarballs <g>). Given that my system is biased toward small files, > would there be an advantage to smaller block size? Possibly, but I'm afraid you don't have that option with JFS yet. > Kevin Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/mailman/listinfo/jfs-discussion
