Buffer blocksize vs. filesystem blocksize

From: Rick Denoire (100.17706_at_germanynet.de)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:46:56 +0100

Hello

Let's suppose I have several ext3 filesystems formatted with different
blocksizes using mke2fs -b <blocksize>. Let's further assume that all
filesystems are mounted using buffering (not "sync").

What implication does this have on the buffer blocksize in memory? Is
there one unique blocksize for all filesystems or will I have several
memory areas to maintain buffers/cache with the matching blocksize?

thanks
Rick Denoire

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