Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-10 Thread Rishi Agrawal
Hello All, On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote: Check this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/50 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/238 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/8/4 blocksize and pagesize always have to match for optimum performance, so max size for

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Teoh
Check this: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/50 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/20/238 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/8/4 blocksize and pagesize always have to match for optimum performance, so max size for blocksize is pagesize. not sure why u want to have large blocksizecheck this:

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-05 Thread Bryan Donlan
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Greg Freemyergreg.freem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Rishi Agrawalrishi.b.agra...@gmail.com wrote: I could not figure out the dependency between the file system block size and the architecture. Can somebody guide me in this ? Rishi,

FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-04 Thread Rishi Agrawal
Hello All, I found this paragraph while understanding file systems. I assume that you are setting this up with ext3 and hence my answer ties to this. If your filesystem is different, you should say so. Note: *In ext3, an 8K block size on the fs is only possible if you use Itanium and other 8K

Re: FS block size and Architecture Dependency

2009-09-04 Thread Greg Freemyer
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Rishi Agrawalrishi.b.agra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I found this paragraph while understanding file systems. I assume that you are setting this up with ext3 and hence my answer ties to this. If your filesystem is different, you should say so. Note: