Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161452AbWHJQrk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:47:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161453AbWHJQrj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:47:39 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:27536 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161449AbWHJQrh (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 12:47:37 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:43:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: John Stoffel cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string In-Reply-To: <17627.23974.848640.278643@stoffel.org> Message-ID: References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> <17627.23974.848640.278643@stoffel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 20 Hi, On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, John Stoffel wrote: > The problem as I see it, is that you want extents, but you don't want > the RAM/DISK/ROM penalty of 64bit blocks, since embedded devices won't > ever go past the existing ext3 sizes, right? > > Is this a more clear statement of what you want? This is only about the runtime penalty. I'm less concerned about the disk structures, as soon as you use extents it's often more efficient than the current structure anyway. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/