From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:27:31 -0700 Message-ID: <44DB6C83.5030402@us.ibm.com> References: <1155172929.3161.87.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234100.9337162d.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20060809234100.9337162d.akpm@osdl.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:22:09 -0700 > Mingming Cao wrote: > > >>As we are planning to support 48-bit block numbers for ext4, >>we need to support 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes. >>In the short term, we can do this by reuse (on-disk) 16-bit >>padding (linux2.i_pad1 currently used only by "hurd") as high >>order bits for xattr. This patch basically does that. > > > Short-term tends to become medium-term, then you're stuck with it. > > What is the plan here? At the time we discuss how to support 48 bit xattr in the current inode, we were thinking about patching ext3, thus it's not likely we will going to do a deep surgery on the on-disk ext3 inode itself to have room for another 16bit xattr. So the plan at that is to steal some unused bits and construct with existing 32bit xattr to come with a 48bit xattr in total. Given the fact that we are creating a new filesystem ext4, the ideal way (long term) probably we should support 64bit xattr in the ext4 inode, that is possible. The plan is to focus on support 48bit ext4 first, then probably move on next few things that also requires on-disk format changes, this is an experiment filesystem at this moment.... Thanks, Mingming ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642