Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:07:27 +1000 | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: [00/17] Large Blocksize Support V3 |
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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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