Re: OS block size vs. DB block size

From: Thor HW <thor_at_Echidna.net>
Date: 1998/03/24
Message-ID: <6fa1cs$n0m$1@news.bctel.net>#1/1

The blocksize on your disk is 512 bytes, so if you're running RAW you want to make it multiples of that. If you're running through standard UNIX filesystem then you want to make it a multiple of what the UNIX kernel has as its blocksize. I thought Solaris was a 4K block for its kernel buffers, who told you it was an 8k kernel block?
Thor HW

S S Wan wrote in message <6f9pjb$l29$1_at_tst.hk.super.net>...
>Hello all,
>
>I was confused by the documents from SUN. They said
>that the logical filesystem block size is 8192 bytes but
>the physical block size is 512 bytes. My concern is which
>figure I should take to consider the DB block size, which
>should be integral multiple of the OS block size.
>
>Does anyone have insight?
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 24 1998 - 00:00:00 CST