linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 24/24] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

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Message-ID: <fd63cace-a4fe-4f4b-9ad0-72201db9e6e6@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:20:30 +0800
From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@...wei.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Pankaj Raghav <kernel@...kajraghav.com>
CC: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>, <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>, <jack@...e.cz>,
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	<willy@...radead.org>, <yi.zhang@...wei.com>, <yangerkun@...wei.com>,
	<chengzhihao1@...wei.com>, <libaokun1@...wei.com>, Baokun Li
	<libaokun@...weicloud.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 24/24] ext4: enable block size larger than page size

On 2025-11-12 05:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 07:01:20PM +0100, Pankaj Raghav wrote:
>> If you are planning to send another revision, then it would be nice to include
>> the corresponding patch to mke2fs as well? I don't know how ext4 process works but
>> just a suggestion.
> It's actually more convenient for me not to mix userspace and kernel
> patches, because b4 doesn't know the difference.  For that matter
> replying with an unrelated patch can also confuse b4, so it's a bit
> easier for people using b4 to send unrelated patches as a separate
> mail thread, using git format-patch / git send-email.
>
> In this case, the corresponding patch to mke2fs is pretty simple, and
> I've already pushed it to the e2fsprogs git repo:
>
>    https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs/commit/6d9033ff854eb346746176f43aa063137275d4b1
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> 					- Ted

Thank you for the adaptation in mke2fs!


Cheers,
Baokun