On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 12:34:01PM +0800, Liu Bo wrote:
> On 03/09/2012 12:25 PM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> > When testing out 16KB blocks with direct I/O [1] on 3.3-rc6, we
> > quickly see btrfs_search_slot returning positive numbers, popping an
> > assertion [2].
> > 
> > Are >4KB block sizes known broken for now?
> 
> Yes, exactly, the kernel side is not ready for >4K block size, but AFAIK it 
> _is_ on going.

This is connected rather to PAGE_SIZE and PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, which happens
to be 4k on x86_64, but eg. ia64 or powerpc64 are happy with 64k blocks
(leaf and node).


david
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