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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: jbd bug(s) (?)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:25:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020926142504.GC9400@think.thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020926150557.A18323@infradead.org>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:44:35AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > block size).  So we could add larger block sizes, but it would mean
> > adding a huge amount of complexity for minimal gain (and if you really
> > want that, you can always use XFS, which pays that complexity cost).
> 
> XFS does't support blocksize > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE under linux. In fact the
> latest public XFS/Linux release doesn't even support any blocksize other
> than PAGE_CACHE_SIZE.  This has changed in the development tree now and
> the version merged in 2.5 and the next public 2.4 release will have that
> support.  Doing blocksize > PAGE_CACHE_SIZE will difficult if not
> impossible due VM locking issues with the 2.4 and 2.5 VM code.

My mistake.  At one point I was talking to Mark Lord and I had gotten
the impression they had some Irix-VM-to-Linux-VM mapping layer which
would make blocksize > PAGE_SIZE possible.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-26 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-24  7:21 jbd bug(s) (?) Jakob Oestergaard
2002-09-25 16:36 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-09-26 12:21   ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-09-26 12:27     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-09-26 12:56       ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-09-26 13:44         ` Theodore Ts'o
2002-09-26 14:05           ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-26 14:25             ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2002-09-26 14:41               ` Christoph Hellwig

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