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

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 01:41:08PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The advantages of this approach over Andreas is basically that the 4k 
> filesystems still can be used as is. 4k is useful for binaries and for 

If you mean that with my approach you can't use a 4k filesystem as is,
that's not correct. I even run the (admittedly premature but
promising) benchmarks on my patch on a 4k blocksized
filesystem... Guess what, you can even still mount a 1k fs on a 2.6
kernel.

The main advantage I can see in your patch is that distributions won't
need to ship a 64k PAGE_SIZE kernel rpm (but your single rpm will be
slower).
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