Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/4] Large Blocksize support for Ext2/3/4 | From | Mingming Cao <> | Date | Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:01:30 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2007-08-29 at 17:47 -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:
> Just rebase to 2.6.23-rc4 and against the ext4 patch queue. Compile tested only. > > Next steps: > Need a e2fsprogs changes to able test this feature. As mkfs needs to be > educated not assuming rec_len to be blocksize all the time. > Will try it with Christoph Lameter's large block patch next. >
Two problems were found when testing largeblock on ext3. Patches to follow.
Good news is, with your changes, plus all these extN changes, I am able to run ext2/3/4 with 64k block size, tested on x86 and ppc64 with 4k page size. fsx test runs fine for an hour on ext3 with 16k blocksize on x86:-)
Mingming
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