linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: Context support

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Message-ID: <1339691042.2401.217.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2012 19:24:02 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@...aro.org>,
	Alex Lemberg <Alex.Lemberg@...disk.com>,
	HYOJIN JEONG <syr.jeong@...sung.com>,
	Saugata Das <saugata.das@...aro.org>,
	Saugata Das <saugata.das@...ricsson.com>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, patches@...aro.org, venkat@...aro.org,
	"Luca Porzio (lporzio)" <lporzio@...ron.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: Context support

On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 12:14 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> Let's not forget that, in almost all cases, filesystem images are not 
> created live on the final medium.  Factories are picking a batch of 
> flash devices and a pre-built filesystem image is stamped on them, and 
> there might not even be a guarantee that those flash devices will all 
> have the same characteristics.  So to say that making this tuning at 
> mkfs time is probably not the best strategy.

Good point. But we can always set the eraseblock size in the superblock
to -1 which would mean "unknown".

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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