From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ted Ts'o Subject: Re: ceph and ext4 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:22:46 -0500 Message-ID: <20111115142246.GA7516@thunk.org> References: <4EC10664.1080501@tuxadero.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from li9-11.members.linode.com ([67.18.176.11]:60541 "EHLO test.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755884Ab1KOOWw (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:22:52 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: ceph-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Christian Brunner Cc: Martin Mailand , ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:29:28AM +0100, Christian Brunner wrote: > > I'd love to have a working filesystem for ceph, but the xattr issue > with ext4 really scares me. That's why I'm still wrestling with btrfs. FYI, there are patches to extend ext4 to store xattr's in a separate inode. They were submitted by the Whamcloud (formerly Oracle, Sun, Clustrefs -- the Lustre folks). Unfortunately I haven't had the personal time and review bandwidth to go over the patches, and they haven't been rebased in a while. I'm not opposed to them; they just need some time and loving attention from folks with ext4 expertise to accelerate the process of getting the patches reviewed, and in mainline. - Ted