linux-ext4 - Re: + ext2-fix-support-for-empty-directory-blocks-in-64k-blocksize-filesys tems.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20090211150227.GI29220@mini-me.lan>
Date:	Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:02:27 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: +
	ext2-fix-support-for-empty-directory-blocks-in-64k-blocksize-filesys
	tems.patch added to -mm tree

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 02:57:58PM -0800, akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> The patch titled
>      ext2: fix support for empty directory blocks in 64k blocksize filesystems
> has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
>      ext2-fix-support-for-empty-directory-blocks-in-64k-blocksize-filesystems.patch

NACK.  The commit description is incomplete, we need to discuss more
what's the best way of handling this.  See the discussion around the
ext4 patch on linux-ext4 for more details.

This patch is entirely moot for ext2 in any case, since
EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE was never changed from 4096.

								- Ted
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