[Bug 207367] Accraid / aptec / Microsemi / ext4 / larger then 16TB

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207367

--- Comment #11 from hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ---
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:29:10PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Well, there are two problems with this - firstly, ocfs2 is also using jbd2
> and it knows nothing about iomap. So that would have to be implemented.
> Secondly, you have to somehow pass iomap ops to jbd2 so it all boils down
> to passing some callback to jbd2 during journal init to map blocks anyway
> as Dave said. And then it is upto filesystem to do the mapping - usually
> directly using its internal block mapping function - so no need for iomap
> AFAICT.

You'll need to describe the mapping some how.  So why not reuse an
existing mechanism instead of creating a new ad-hoc one?

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