-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/15/2013 2:57 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > So bigalloc is basically a hack because it was easier to make this > change in the file system than it is to deal with block sizes > greater than the page size. If it is only to get around the mm pagesize limit, then why not just have the fs automatically lie to the kernel about the block size and shift the references back and forth on the fly when it detects a larger blocksize? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ9b5XAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75ankH/39qiU2tahSVRekQ6kkyFeaY RnGMydXcKgSacKAlvmIgP6VOnqPmBCKtdM8oxlob4+orJUksWiLmT7nvMIukUOqs QGqPzsHtpIzNZnPB6soc6ToRbx+b53EM4fQ+XIt9egnJ4p6gDRiS83xKKjyZnywq 94ZPH5Zg84Xr+zmyUFRqs/cDG2tmbo/6qgkqkVUeFfdLzygq2K4LO/dFpuRg3oqV ceUqVCieCfEplcjnyClT1uOv3RBrjCcyFW1j46UjEYiHkFENYsCSi/Hk4qOYDls+ i/bETjWABSXz23BMD2/B0wZwhGwkrsX2Y5g1CjtRksgPFthW/rmk0HzvWniC9J4= =kJ8x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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