On 9/19/07, David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is this: to alter the fundamental block size of the > filesystem we also need to alter the data block size and that is > exactly the piece that linux does not support right now. So while > we have the capability to use large block sizes in certain > filesystems, we can't use that capability until the data path > supports it.
it's much simpler to teach fs to understand multipage data (like multipage bitmap scan, multipage extent search, etc) then deal with mm fragmentation. IMHO. at same time you don't bust IO traffic with non-used space. -- thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
