[aklug] Re: File system thoughts

From: Joshua J. Kugler <joshua@eeinternet.com>
Date: Thu Mar 25 2010 - 13:17:54 AKDT

On Thursday 25 March 2010, Christopher Howard elucidated thus:
> One question, related to my earlier statement about XFS block size.
> My statement:
>
> "You can trade off file capacity for performance (or vice versa) by
> adjusting the block size. Larger block size can provide better
> performance at the cost of storage. (Though, unfortunately, it would
> seem that under Linux block size cannot be larger than the system
> page size.)
>
> Is Linux page size something adjustable? (I'm talking about the value
> you get when you run "getconf PAGESIZE")

I believe so, but only with a kernel recompile.

j

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