On 07/19/2010 09:56 AM, Miao Xie wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:12:13 -0400, Chris Mason <chris.ma...@oracle.com> > wrote: >>>>> It seems that the btrfs doesn't support the sectorsize which is >>>>> greater than the page size just like ext2/3/4, though we can use >>>>> mkfs.btrfs to make a filesystem with a big sectorsize. Am I right? >>>>> >>>>> If yes, we must do more check in the mkfs.btrfs. >>>>> >>>> >>>> yes, btrfs doesn't support the sectorsize> PAGE_size. >>>> >>> >>> So we must do more check in the mkfs.btrfs to avoid misuse, and I'll >>> add some check of the sectorsize into the mkfs.btrfs. >> >> Yes, but this is fixed up with the raid code, we'll allow different page >> sizes. > > Is the raid code that you said the initialization code for the block devices? > just like this: > > fs/btrfs/volumes.c:1430 > int btrfs_init_new_device(struct btrfs_root *root, char *device_path) > { > [snip] > set_blocksize(device->bdev, 4096); > [snip] > } > > If yes, it uses a hard-code value to initialize the blocksize of the block > device, > not the blocksize of the btrfs, so the btrfs doesn't check the blocksize of > the btrfs. >
This is for btrfs super block, because size of btrfs super block is fixed. Yan, Zheng -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html