(large snip) On 11/14/2013 03:49 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
(I'm sympathetic to pushing the envelope and dragging apps into the 21st >century, but it's s double edged sword).Yes, it is, but if we don't take a stand and say "we, as an ecosystem, need to support 4k sectors*everywhere*", then we are going to have such problems*forever*. This isn't purely an XFS problem - this is something that the entire storage stack needs to support, from the hardware at the very bottom to the applications at the very top. XFS is stuck in the middle, where we cop it from both the hardware side ("why don't you support our hardware efficiently yet?") and from the application side when we do ("4k sectors break our assumptions!"). It's a no win situation for us no matter what we do, and history has shown that when we don't take a strong leadership position the problems don't get solved. So, let's take the initiative and make sure that everyone knows how to deal with these problems and get them fixed in the right places. I don't want to be spending the next 10 years complaining about a lack of 4k sector support in qemu. It's too much like the inode64 saga over all over again. Let's face it, it wouldn't be right if XFS wasn't fighting some battle to drag Linux kicking and screaming into the present... Cheers, Dave.
I would agree that we should not to hit our 4K sector support, have we reached out the the KVM/QEMU people to see if we can get them to fix this on their side?
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