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    SubjectRe: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3
    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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