Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

Christoph Lameter
2007-09-02T11:40:40Z

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> > >From clameter:
> > Teach jbd/jbd2 slab management to support >8k block size. Without this, it refused to mount on >8k ext3.
>
>
> But the real fix is to kill this code. We can't send down slab pages
> down the block layer without breaking iscsi or aoe. And this code is
> only used in so rare cases that all the normal testing won't hit it.
> Very bad combination.

We are doing what you describe right now. So the current code is broken?