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now Linux 3.2 can read ext3 16k blocks !
Linux 3.2 (just released) can now read ext2-3-4 with bigger blocks, up to 1M, there is no longer the 4k limit for x86 PC. For the Debian SPARC NAS owners (ReadyNAS Duo, ...) - which has 16k blocks ...
I almost fear it's too early to start the party since I read the news on the new kernel myself.
Does this really mean we can now mount filesystems with bigger clustersize or does this only mean that ext4 is now able to combine some internal allocation blocks to bigger ones?
I mean is this bigalloc really what the bigger cluster size on sparc architecture is about or is this some completely different concept?
Looks like someone has to build this kernel and run it to see if it really helps.
Maybe if I find the time I could do that next week, it's not that hard to do, I'm just not sure about the extra fuzz that needs to be built from source like e2fsprogs etc.
The H (http://www.h-online.com/open/features/K ... 87311.html) wrote: The Ext4 filesystem now supports big allocation blocks (e.g 1, 2, 3). The technique, known as bigalloc, bundles the 4K blocks use to store data into clusters of up to 1 MB.
Does this really mean we can now mount filesystems with bigger clustersize or does this only mean that ext4 is now able to combine some internal allocation blocks to bigger ones?
I mean is this bigalloc really what the bigger cluster size on sparc architecture is about or is this some completely different concept?
Looks like someone has to build this kernel and run it to see if it really helps.
Maybe if I find the time I could do that next week, it's not that hard to do, I'm just not sure about the extra fuzz that needs to be built from source like e2fsprogs etc.
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