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As per the wiki entry for Ext2,”In Linux the block size is limited by the architecture page size.”
I think the restriction is due the fact in a typical file system(say ext2) data is handled in terms of pages and hence it gives more performance to use architecture page size.
My question is : Can you point me where exactly this restriction is implemented ?
So I won’t be able to format lesser than page size(typically 4k) ?
Thanks
The limit on ext2 block size with respect to page size is an upper bound; ext2 blocks may be 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes on an architecture with 4k pages. On architectures such as Alpha that have 8k pages, a block size of 8192 bytes would be valid, but such filesystems would not be usable on systems with a smaller page size.
See Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt in the Linux kernel source for more information.