From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs block size and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
Date: 06 May 2003 23:34:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <shs8ytjyd1i.fsf@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EB7F401.1010908@shaolinmicro.com>
>>>>> " " == David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com> writes:
> In other words, is it possible (or someone already done) to
> implement a file system that has 16k block size on a 4k paging
> system.
The NFS client does that. In 2.4.x, I had to invent a custom system
for coalescing the pages, but in 2.5.x, Andrew added the readpages()
op, and the ability to control page readahead via the backing_dev_info
struct.
Cheers,
Trond
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-06 17:42 fs block size and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE David Chow
2003-05-06 19:34 ` Szakacsits Szabolcs
2003-05-06 21:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2003-05-07 0:59 ` Phillip Lougher
2003-05-12 1:59 ` David Chow
2003-05-06 21:34 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
[not found] ` <3EBE85E8.50906@shaolinmicro.com>
2003-05-12 0:31 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-05-12 2:07 ` David Chow
2003-05-12 10:32 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2003-05-12 11:33 ` Phillip Lougher
2003-05-12 17:46 ` David Chow
2003-05-07 0:48 ` Phillip Lougher
2003-05-11 17:12 ` David Chow
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