[This patch allows architectures that use 64k blocksizes--like IA64 and PPC64--to use 64k blocks on ext filesystems] The patches to support blocksizes up to PAGESIZE, max 64KB for ext2/3/4,\ were originally from Takashi Sato. http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=115768873518400&w=2 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. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato <sho@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext2/super.c | 2 +- fs/ext3/super.c | 5 ++++- fs/ext4/super.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/ext2_fs.h | 4 ++-- include/linux/ext3_fs.h | 4 ++-- include/linux/ext4_fs.h | 4 ++-- 6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext2/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/ext2/super.c 2007-09-25 14:53:57.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext2/super.c 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -856,7 +856,7 @@ static int ext2_fill_super(struct super_ brelse(bh); if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) { - printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device.\n"); + printk(KERN_ERR "EXT2-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize); goto failed_sbi; } Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/ext3/super.c 2007-09-25 14:53:57.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext3/super.c 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -1625,7 +1625,10 @@ static int ext3_fill_super (struct super } brelse (bh); - sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize); + if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "EXT3-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize); + goto out_fail; + } logic_sb_block = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) / blocksize; offset = (sb_block * EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE) % blocksize; bh = sb_bread(sb, logic_sb_block); Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext4/super.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/fs/ext4/super.c 2007-09-25 14:53:57.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/fs/ext4/super.c 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -1652,6 +1652,11 @@ static int ext4_fill_super (struct super goto out_fail; } + if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) { + printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: bad blocksize %d.\n", blocksize); + goto out_fail; + } + /* * The ext4 superblock will not be buffer aligned for other than 1kB * block sizes. We need to calculate the offset from buffer start. Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext2_fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2007-09-25 14:53:58.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext2_fs.h 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ static inline struct ext2_sb_info *EXT2_ * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes */ #define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 -#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096 -#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 +#define EXT2_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536 +#define EXT2_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 #ifdef __KERNEL__ # define EXT2_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize) #else Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext3_fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2007-09-24 17:33:10.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext3_fs.h 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -76,8 +76,8 @@ * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes */ #define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 -#define EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096 -#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 +#define EXT3_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536 +#define EXT3_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 #ifdef __KERNEL__ # define EXT3_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize) #else Index: linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext4_fs.h =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1.orig/include/linux/ext4_fs.h 2007-09-25 14:53:58.000000000 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc8-mm1/include/linux/ext4_fs.h 2007-09-25 15:37:34.000000000 -0700 @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes */ #define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 -#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096 -#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 +#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536 +#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 #ifdef __KERNEL__ # define EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize) #else -- - 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