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From Peter Eisentraut
Subject 8Kb or 4Kb ext4 filesystem page size
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In response to 8Kb or 4Kb ext4 filesystem page size  (Alexandre hadjinlian guerra <alexhguerra@gmail.com>)
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On 2019-05-29 14:10, Alexandre hadjinlian guerra wrote:
> Given that postgres uses 8Kb pages, im wondering why i couldnt see any
> tests at all which would format ext4 partition to 8Kb pages.

I suppose this is because the maximum block size for ext4 is 4 kB.

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