On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Thomas Swan wrote: > > > Has anyone looked at changing the default block size across the board > > and what the performance improvements/penalties might be? Hardware has > > changed quite a bit over the years. > > I *think* that the reason for the performance improvement on FreeBSD is > that our FS block size is 16k, instead of 8k ... are there any other > OSs that have increased theirs?
Linux, is still, as far as I know, limited to the max page size of the CPU it's on, which for most x86 is 4k. Windows 2k can go up to 64k block sizes. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
