On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Mingming Cao wrote: > It's quite simple to support large block size in ext2/3/4, mostly just > enlarge the block size limit. But it is NOT possible to have 64kB > blocksize on ext2/3/4 without some changes to the directory handling > code. The reason is that an empty 64kB directory block would have a > rec_len == (__u16)2^16 == 0, and this would cause an error to be hit in > the filesystem. The proposed solution is to put 2 empty records in such > a directory, or to special-case an impossible value like rec_len = > 0xffff to handle this. Ahh. Good. I could add the path to the large blocksize patchset? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
