From: Christian Brunner <chb@muc.de>
Subject: Re: ceph and ext4
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 23:59:29 +0100
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2011/11/15 Andreas Dilger <adilger@whamcloud.com>:
> 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.
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> This will allow xattrs up to 64kB in size (in total) to be stored as efficiently as an external xattr block.
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Did you make progress with this. I'm still having serious trouble with
btrfs and would like to try these.

Thanks,
Christian