On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2012-02-11, at 9:05 PM, Yehuda Sadeh Weinraub wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On 2011-12-08, at 3:59 PM, Christian Brunner wrote: >>>> 2011/11/15 Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Did you make progress with this. I'm still having serious trouble with >>>> btrfs and would like to try these. >>> >>> The latest patches are available at http://review.whamcloud.com/1708, but are based on the RHEL6.1 2.6.32 kernel. The work to implement "medium-sized" xattrs was more complex than anticipated, and is not finished yet. >>> >>> The use of external inode xattrs is working, which allows xattr sizes up to 64kB. The 64kB limit is imposed by the VFS and could potentially be increased. >> >> I was able to get those compile on a recent kernel. > > It would be useful if you could send me the updated patch, if there were > any significant changes. I pushed it to the the ext4-large-xattr branch, here: https://github.com/NewDreamNetwork/ceph-client.git > >> One issue that I >> see is that it will only use a separate inode for the xattr if the >> xattr is big enough. However, it may be that we ran out of enough >> space to set a smaller xattr, and in that case we would fail setting >> it even though we'd be able to set a larger xattr. >> Another related issue, is that the number of xattrs that can be used >> is still limited (by what can be indexed in a single block?). > > That is true with the current patch. When the "medium sized" xattrs are > finished, then there will be 64kB of space for xattrs in the external > block(s), which could be both xattr headers and data. Is there any progress with this feature? Is there any public repository where we can take a look at that? 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
