Re: [PATCH 10/22] ext4: Verify and calculate checksums for extent tree blocks

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:40:15AM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:27:25PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> >  /*
> > + * This is the extent tail on-disk structure.
> > + * All other extent structures are 12 bytes long.  It turns out that
> > + * block_size % 12 >= 4 for all valid block sizes (1k, 2k, 4k).
> 
> More generally, block_size % 12 is >= 4 for all powers of 2 greater
> than 12 bytes.  I'd probably remove (1k, 2k, 4k) because that might
> scare people who might say, "hey!  I'm using a 16k block size on my
> HPC system running on a Power or Itanium box --- am I going to be OK?".
> Valid block sizes go up to the page size of the hardware in question...

Ok.

--D

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