Bill Sommerfeld writes:
 > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:30 +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote:
 > > I'm assuming this is local filesystem rather than ZFS backed NFS (which 
 > > is what I have).
 > 
 > Correct, on a laptop.
 > 
 > > What has setting the 32KB recordsize done for the rest of your home
 > > dir, or did you give the evolution directory its own dataset ?
 > 
 > The latter, though it occurs to me that I could set the recordsize back
 > up to 128K once the databases (one per mail account) are created -- the
 > recordsize dataset property is read only at file create time when the
 > file's recordsize is set.  

...almost.

The definitive recordsize for a file is set when the
filesize grows, for the first time, above the filessystem
recordsize property. Touching a file is not enough here.

 > (Having a new interface to set the file's
 > recordsize directly at create time would bypass this sort of gyration).
 > 

I kind of agree here but we would need to change also how it
works also.

-r

 > (Apparently the sqlite file format uses 16-bit within-page offsets; 32kb
 > is its current maximum page size and 64k may be as large as it can go
 > without significant renovations..)
 > 
 >                                              - Bill
 > 
 > 
 >                                              - Bill
 > 
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