Re: File BlockSize

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Tue, 12 Feb 2002 12:57:22 -0800

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 02:37:43PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Going to a block size bigger than page size causes all sorts of fun with
> allocation failures if there are not two pages free adjacent to one another
> when allocating, and isn't really worth the cost.

This sounds like fairly severe memory fragmentation, which seems more
worrisome to me than blocksize constraints. Should I look into that?

Cheers,
Bill
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