Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Nick Piggin
2007-04-26T07:14:17Z

David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 04:53:40PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>>Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am working now and again on some code to do this, it is a big job but
>>>>I think it is the right way to do it. But it would take a long time to
>>>>get stable and supported by filesystems...
>>>
>>>Ummm... We already have a radix tree for this???? What more is needed? You
>>>just need to go through all filesystems and make them use extends.
>>
>>I'm talking about block size > page size in the buffer layer.
>
>
> Nick, what's the buffer layer? Are you talking about operations
> based on bufferheads?

Yeah. Our pgoff_t->sector_t translation.

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