[36/37] Large blocksize support for ext2

2007-06-20 Thread clameter
This adds support for a block size of up to 64k on any platform. It enables the mounting filesystems that have a larger blocksize than the page size. F.e. the following is possible on x86_64 and i386 that have only a 4k page size. mke2fs -b 16384 /dev/hdd2 mount /dev/hdd2 /media ls -l /me

Re: [36/37] Large blocksize support for ext2

2007-06-20 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 20, 2007 11:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This adds support for a block size of up to 64k on any platform. > It enables the mounting filesystems that have a larger blocksize > than the page size. Might have been good to CC the ext2/3/4 maintainers here? I definitely have been waiti

Re: [36/37] Large blocksize support for ext2

2007-06-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jun 20, 2007 11:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This adds support for a block size of up to 64k on any platform. > > It enables the mounting filesystems that have a larger blocksize > > than the page size. > > Might have been good to CC the

Re: [36/37] Large blocksize support for ext2

2007-06-20 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jun 20, 2007 14:27 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > Hmmm... Actually there is nothing additional to be done after the earlier > > > cleanup of the macros. So just modify copyright. > > > > It is NOT possible to have 64kB blocksize on ext2/3/4 without some small > > changes to the director