On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Thomas Swan wrote:
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> > 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.
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> 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.