linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] erofs: implement metadata compression

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Message-ID: <fadcc64f-d95d-4902-ae4f-981c91babed6@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:29:22 +0800
From: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc: chao@...nel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 Bo Liu <liubo03@...pur.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] erofs: implement metadata compression

On 7/18/25 11:19, Gao Xiang wrote:
> From: Bo Liu <liubo03@...pur.com>
> 
> Thanks to the meta buffer infrastructure, metadata-compressed inodes are
> just read from the metabox inode instead of the blockdevice (or backing
> file) inode.
> 
> The same is true for shared extended attributes.
> 
> When metadata compression is enabled, inode numbers are divided from
> on-disk NIDs because of non-LTS 32-bit application compatibility.
> 
> Co-developed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bo Liu <liubo03@...pur.com>
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@...ux.alibaba.com>

Acked-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,