linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 3/9] ext4/306: Add -b blocksize parameter too to avoid failure with DAX config

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Message-ID: <YNyb9Ey1nlalA8Z9@mit.edu>
Date:   Wed, 30 Jun 2021 12:29:40 -0400
From:   "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     fstests@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] ext4/306: Add -b blocksize parameter too to avoid
 failure with DAX config

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 11:58:07AM +0530, Ritesh Harjani wrote:
> mkfs.ext4 by default uses 4K blocksize. On DAX config with a 64K
> pagesize platform (PPC64), this will fail to mount since DAX requires bs
> == ps.
> Hence add the -b blocksize paramter in ext4/306.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@...ux.ibm.com>

Looks good, thanks.

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>

					- Ted