linux-kernel - Re: [31/36] Large Blocksize: Core piece

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708291712020.4336@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:12:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>
cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	David Chinner <dgc@....com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...il.com>,
	Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@...il.com>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...il.com>,
	swin wang <wangswin@...il.com>, totty.lu@...il.com,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, joern@...ybastard.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [31/36] Large Blocksize: Core piece

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Mingming Cao wrote:

> > Known internal limitations:
> > 
> > Ext2            64k
> > XFS             64k
> > Reiserfs        8k
> > Ext3            4k (rumor has it that changing a constant can remove the limit)
> > Ext4            4k
> > 
> 
> There are patches original worked by Takashi Sato to support large block
> size (up to 64k) in ext2/3/4, which addressed the directory issue as
> well. I just forward ported. Will posted it in a separate thread.
> Haven't get a chance to integrated with your patch yet (next step).

Ahh. Great. Keep me posted.

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