From: Arne Jansen <sensille@gmx.net>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>,
Peeters Simon <peeters.simon@gmail.com>,
linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Move nodesize/leafsize/sectorsize to fs_info
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:54:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EA87372.5050006@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111026162719.GC5177@shiny.Mikenopa.local>
On 10/26/2011 06:27 PM, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 06:23:38PM +0200, David Sterba wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 04:47:15PM +0200, Arne Jansen wrote:
>>> The sizes get initialized to 4096, but after the super block is read,
>>> these are replaced by those from the SB.
>>
>> [reads sources again] right, and the initial values are not used up to
>> that point, so 4096 could be any number.
>>
>>> It was indeed meant to get rid of the possibility to have different
>>> sizes for different trees, as it just adds complexity. Chris mentioned
>>> once that he does not intend to allow different sizes between trees,
>>> thus the idea for this cleanup.
>>
>> Ok then. I'll gather it to cleanup patch queue.
>
> Thanks, I actually don't intend to allow different leaf and node sizes
> anymore either, but we might as well keep both numbers.
So that would be another good cleanup, as it is not always easy to tell
if a block is a node or a leaf. It would actually simplify things.
-Arne
>
> -chris
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-26 20:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-07 21:54 [patch] Move nodesize/leafsize/sectorsize to fs_info Peeters Simon
2011-10-26 13:34 ` David Sterba
2011-10-26 14:47 ` Arne Jansen
2011-10-26 16:23 ` David Sterba
2011-10-26 16:27 ` Chris Mason
2011-10-26 20:54 ` Arne Jansen [this message]
2011-10-31 13:51 ` David Sterba
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