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Ross Zubritski
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Max FS Block Size.

Please give me some insight here. Our resident "experts" are creating a large datamart on 9i and 11i. They are asking me to create filesystems with a 16K block size. First of all, is this possible with vxfs or volume manager 3.2? Second of all is it practical?

Thanks in advance.

RZ
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James A. Donovan
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Re: Max FS Block Size.

It's definitely possible. And the file system block size ideally should match the Oracle block size (which apparently is going to be 16K in your case)

Under LVM, it's
# newfs -F vxfs -b 16384 /dev/vgXX/rlvolY

The default is 1024 for file systems less than 8 gigabytes, 2048 for file systemsless than 16 gigabytes, 4096 for file systemsless than 32 gigabytes, and 8192 for larger
file systems.

Volume manager 3.2 may change the syntax somewhat but it will still be doable.
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Jeff Schussele
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Re: Max FS Block Size.

Hi Russ,

In vxfs block size can be
>= 1024 & <= 8192 in powers of 2. So it appears that NO you can't have a 16K block size. 8 is the largest.
You define block size in the newfs command with -b xxxx where xxxx=the desired size

The defaults are as follows
FS size
<= 8GB => 1024
8.1 -> 16 Gb => 2048
16.1 -> 32 Gb => 4096
> 32Gb => 8192

Rgds,
Jeff
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James A. Donovan
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Re: Max FS Block Size.

oops...nevermind...goes to show you should test before opening one's mouth....

/usr/sbin/newfs -F vxfs -b 16384 /dev/vg01/rlvol16
vxfs mkfs: bsize must be a power of 2 >= 1024 and <= 8192
vxfs mkfs: Usage:
mkfs [-F vxfs] [-V] -m special
mkfs [-F vxfs] [-V] [-o [N] [X] [ninode=#] [bsize=#] [logsize=#]
[nau=#] [ausize=#] [aufirst=#] [aupad=#]
[version=#] [largefiles|nolargefiles]
[inosize=#] special size
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James A. Donovan
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Re: Max FS Block Size.

another thread...same subject

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xe99e8cc5e03fd6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.html
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Jeff Schussele
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Re: Max FS Block Size.

Hey Jim,

Been there...done that, my friend.

Keep foruming,
Jeff
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