Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3

Christoph Lameter
2007-04-26T07:11:54Z

On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:

> > Nick, what's the buffer layer? Are you talking about operations
> > based on bufferheads?
>
> Yeah. Our pgoff_t->sector_t translation.

Sadly the buffers in the buffer layer still assume contiguous memory. You
would have to add a series of pointers there and then add a layer to
handle this.