linux-kernel - Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709241411120.30982@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:13:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
cc:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...e.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Nathan Scott <nscott@...nex.com>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@...net.ie>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.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,
	joern@...ybastard.org
Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> I've found some fixes needed on top of your Large Blocksize Support
> patches: I'll send those to you in a moment.  Looks like you didn't
> try much swapping!

yup. Thanks for looking at it.

> 
> I only managed to get ext2 working with larger blocksizes:
> reiserfs -b 8192 wouldn't mount ("reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
> reiserfs on /dev/sdb1"); ext3 gave me mysterious errors ("JBD: tar
> wants too many credits", even after adding JBD patches that you
> turned out to be depending on); and I didn't try ext4 or xfs
> (I'm guessing the latter has been quite well tested ;)

Yes, there were issues with the first releases of the JBD patches. The 
current crop in mm is fine but much of that may have bypassed this list.



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