Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:40:21 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k) |
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On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > >From clameter: > > Teach jbd/jbd2 slab management to support >8k block size. Without this, it refused to mount on >8k ext3. > > > But the real fix is to kill this code. We can't send down slab pages > down the block layer without breaking iscsi or aoe. And this code is > only used in so rare cases that all the normal testing won't hit it. > Very bad combination.
We are doing what you describe right now. So the current code is broken?
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