Re: [RFC 1/4] Large Blocksize support for Ext2/3/4

Mingming Cao
2007-09-01T00:01:16Z

On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:47 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:

> Just rebase to 2.6.23-rc4 and against the ext4 patch queue. Compile tested only.
>
> Next steps:
> Need a e2fsprogs changes to able test this feature. As mkfs needs to be
> educated not assuming rec_len to be blocksize all the time.
> Will try it with Christoph Lameter's large block patch next.
>

Two problems were found when testing largeblock on ext3. Patches to
follow.

Good news is, with your changes, plus all these extN changes, I am able
to run ext2/3/4 with 64k block size, tested on x86 and ppc64 with 4k
page size. fsx test runs fine for an hour on ext3 with 16k blocksize on
x86:-)

Mingming