Re: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Rene Herman wrote:
> 
> Well, not so sure about that. What if one of your expected uses for example is
> video data storage -- lots of data, especially for multiple streams, and needs
> still relatively fast machinery. Why would you care for the overhead af
> _small_ blocks?

.. so work with an extent-based filesystem instead.

16k blocks are total idiocy. If this wasn't about a "support legacy 
customers", I think the whole patch-series has been a total waste of time.

		Linus
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