From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
To: Lorenzo Allegrucci <l.allegrucci@tiscalinet.it>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <hps@intermeta.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Add extended attributes to ext2/3
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 12:32:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016183255.GB1201@clusterfs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210161950.54993.l.allegrucci@tiscalinet.it>
On Oct 16, 2002 19:50 +0200, Lorenzo Allegrucci wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 October 2002 18:16, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > We already have different block sizes for ext2/3; we support 1k, 2k,
> > and 4k block sizes.
>
> BTW, why doesn't ext2/3 support 512 byte block sizes?
Too inefficient, and impose too many limitations on the filesystem
(which sets up some filesystem structures based on the blocksize).
Already, 1kB block size is too small for many things, and 4kB is
preferred. It would probably support larger blocksizes already on
ia32 if the page size was larger.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-16 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 22:20 [PATCH 2/3] Add extended attributes to ext2/3 tytso
2002-10-16 9:38 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-16 16:16 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-16 17:05 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-10-16 19:30 ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-10-19 18:36 ` Jan Kara
2002-10-16 17:50 ` Lorenzo Allegrucci
2002-10-16 18:32 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
[not found] ` <200210161336.27935.agruen@suse.de>
[not found] ` <3DAD8D5E.31E177BA@digeo.com>
2002-10-16 20:32 ` [PATCH] linux-2.5.43-mm1: Further xattr/acl cleanups Andreas Gruenbacher
2002-10-16 21:15 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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