linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large Blocksize support

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [patch 00/14] Page cache cleanup in anticipation of Large
 Blocksize support

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> We want the 100% case.

Yes that is what we intend to do. Universal support for larger blocksize. 
I.e. your desktop filesystem will use 64k page size and server platforms 
likely much larger. fsck times etc etc are becoming an issue for desktop 
systems given the capacities and lockinhg becomes an issue the more 
multicore your desktops become.

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