Re: [Nbd] NBD blocksize question

[Wouter Verhelst <wouter@...3...>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:43:56AM +0100, JaniD++ wrote:
> Hello, list,
> 
> It is a relatively easy way to change (hack) the NBD-blocksize to 8192 for
> jumbo ethernet frames? :-)

You'd need to patch the kernel to do that; dunno how hard it's going to
be.

That being said, I don't think it's a fairly good idea to do that; the
block size is also used by the file system; if you have a block device
with a large block size, you'll lose a lot of space.

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