From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:50:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20070911060349.993975297@sgi.com> <200709161853.12050.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <200709181116.22573.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <20070918191853.GB7541@v2.random> <46F09A80.8020605@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Nick Piggin , Christoph Lameter , Mel Gorman , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , William Lee Irwin III , David Chinner , Jens Axboe , Badari Pulavarty , Maxim Levitsky , Fengguang Wu , swin wang , totty.lu@gmail.com, hugh@veritas.com, joern@lazybastard.org To: Rene Herman Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:49875 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbXISDwd (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:52:33 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46F09A80.8020605@gmail.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > > Well, not so sure about that. What if one of your expected uses for example is > video data storage -- lots of data, especially for multiple streams, and needs > still relatively fast machinery. Why would you care for the overhead af > _small_ blocks? .. so work with an extent-based filesystem instead. 16k blocks are total idiocy. If this wasn't about a "support legacy customers", I think the whole patch-series has been a total waste of time. Linus