From: Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub <yehudasa@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: ceph and ext4
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:43:58 -0800
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com> wrote:
> Coincidentally, we have someone working in those patches again. The main obstacle for accepting the previous patch as-is was that Ted wanted to add support for "medium-sized" xattrs that are addressed as a string of blocks, instead of via an inode.
>
> This will allow xattrs up to 64kB in size (in total) to be stored as efficiently as an external xattr block.
>

Ted, is having that is a hard requirement? Can this
functionality/optimization be added later so that we can leverage ext4
in the mean time, even if not in the most optimal way?

Thanks,
Yehuda