Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 2 Sep 2007 16:28:01 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k) |
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On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:40:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > 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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