Ted-san, Theodore Tso wrote: > Are you aware of any patches that enable an IA64 system to support a > page size greater than 64kB? (And whether any customer would actually > want to use them, given the downsides of very large page size?) The No, I am not. But I have considered that POWERPC system has been supported over 64KB page size after I examined all Kconfig's in kernel source. Therefore I thought this bug should be fixed in kernel side. > issue is that Linux doesn't support filesystem block sizes > than the > page size. In any case, I don't mind adding patches that attempt to > make it better to support large block sizes; I don't really want to > claim that we support it until we can actually fully test for that I think so, too. > feature, though. Is it your intent to actually try to provide support > for this at some point? I'll help you if you are, but you'll have to > do the testing, since I don't have access to an IA64 platform that > might be able to support these sorts of large pages. > > Thanks, > > - Ted I don't think this feature (over 64KB block size support) to be necessary immediately. Because I have been investigating ext4 for my customers in order that I may provide them greater quality and performance but they don't want it now. But when my customers want this feature, I will try to test it. Best regards, Toshiyuki Okajima -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
