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  3. March 2005

Re: Disk storage - iSeries/Windows/UNIX

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Graap, Ken wrote:

I believe the AS/400 (she means iSeries) uses a different blocksize than the
UNIX and Windows worlds -- 520K vs 512K.  That is why purchasing a SAN (from
a non-IBM source) that would work across all three of our architectures
proves very expensive.  So, could you confirm if the blocksize is, in fact,
different between the different platforms, and what effect this has on how
storage can be allocated between them in your proposed architecture?

When creating most filesystems in linux you can specify the blocksize (linux has several filesystems it can use). Look at the man page for the filesystem create command you are interested in (i.e. 'man mkfs.xfs' or 'man mkfs.ext3').

James Rich

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