Re: [RFC] extents,mballoc,delalloc for 2.6.16.8

Alex Tomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Organization CFS
Message-ID <[email protected]>
yes, we have a fix already.

thanks, Alex

>>>>> Johann Lombardi (JL) writes:

 JL> As for mballoc, I noticed a limitation which you may already be aware of.
 sbi-> s_group_info is an array of pointers to structures containing per-group
 JL> information. IIRC, kmalloc is limited to 128kB which means that the allocation
 JL> of sbi->s_group_info will fail for filestems bigger than
 JL> (128kB / sizeof(void *)) * (blocksize * 8) * blocksize.
 JL> As a consequence, mballoc cannot currently be used beyond 2TB on 64-bit
 JL> architectures with a 4kB block size.


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