From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] Large Blocksize support for Ext2/3/4 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:01:30 -0700 Message-ID: <1188604890.3837.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070828190551.415127746@sgi.com> <20070828190735.292638294@sgi.com> <1188432669.3799.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1188434857.3799.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, adilger@clusterfs.com, sho@tnes.nec.co.jp, ext4 development , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: clameter@sgi.com Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:59393 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750854AbXIAABQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:01:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1188434857.3799.76.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:47 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > Just rebase to 2.6.23-rc4 and against the ext4 patch queue. Compile tested only. > > Next steps: > Need a e2fsprogs changes to able test this feature. As mkfs needs to be > educated not assuming rec_len to be blocksize all the time. > Will try it with Christoph Lameter's large block patch next. > Two problems were found when testing largeblock on ext3. Patches to follow. Good news is, with your changes, plus all these extN changes, I am able to run ext2/3/4 with 64k block size, tested on x86 and ppc64 with 4k page size. fsx test runs fine for an hour on ext3 with 16k blocksize on x86:-) Mingming