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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/6] dax: Add block size note to documentation
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 22:03:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150704050329.GA22452@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1435934443-17090-2-git-send-email-matthew.r.wilcox@intel.com>

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 10:40:38AM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
> 
> For block devices which are small enough, mkfs will default to creating
> a filesystem with block sizes smaller than page size.

This seems like an odd note.  At least for XFS and btrfs filesystem size
don't change block sizes.  ff this is an extN oddity you're probably
better off documenting it there.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-04  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-03 14:40 [PATCH v2 0/6] Miscellaneous DAX patches, take 2 Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] dax: Add block size note to documentation Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-04  5:03   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2015-07-05  8:43     ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-05 13:11   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] ext4: Use ext4_get_block_write() for DAX Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-03 18:30   ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-07-03 18:48     ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-03 19:07       ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-07-05 13:29         ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] vfs: Allow truncate, chomd and chown to be interrupted by fatal signals Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices Matthew Wilcox
2015-07-05 13:47   ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-07-03 14:40 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep Matthew Wilcox

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