Re: [RFC 1/4] Large Blocksize support for Ext2/3/4
From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-30 00:59:58
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From: Christoph Lameter <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-30 00:59:58
Also in:
linux-fsdevel, lkml
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Mingming Cao wrote:
It's quite simple to support large block size in ext2/3/4, mostly just enlarge the block size limit. But it is NOT possible to have 64kB blocksize on ext2/3/4 without some changes to the directory handling code. The reason is that an empty 64kB directory block would have a rec_len == (__u16)2^16 == 0, and this would cause an error to be hit in the filesystem. The proposed solution is to put 2 empty records in such a directory, or to special-case an impossible value like rec_len = 0xffff to handle this.
Ahh. Good. I could add the path to the large blocksize patchset?