On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Coincidentally, we have someone working in those patches again. The main obstacle for accepting the previous patch as-is was that Ted wanted to add support for "medium-sized" xattrs that are addressed as a string of blocks, instead of via an inode. > > This will allow xattrs up to 64kB in size (in total) to be stored as efficiently as an external xattr block. > Ted, is having that is a hard requirement? Can this functionality/optimization be added later so that we can leverage ext4 in the mean time, even if not in the most optimal way? Thanks, Yehuda -- 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
