Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Jan 18, 2006 22:06 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> > As a disk tends to get large, a disk storage has had a capacity to
> > supply multi-TB. But now, ext3 can't support more than 8TB filesystem
> > when blocksize is 4KB. That's why I think ext3 needs to be
> > more than 8TB.
> >
> > Therefore I think filesystem size can increase on architectures
> > which has more than 4KB pagesize by extending blocksize to pagesize on
> > ext3. For example, the following is in case of ia64. (Blocksize have
> > already been supported up to pagesize on ext2. Why is the max blocksize
> > restricted to 4KB on ext3?)
> >
> > Max filesystem size on ia64:
> > Original :4096(blocksize) * 2^31 = 8TB
> > After modification [pagesize=16KB(default)]:16384(blocksize) * 2^31 = 32TB
> > After modification [pagesize=64KB(max)] :65536(blocksize) * 2^31 = 128TB
>
> Just for others' info - the fill_super change has been tested in the past
> by Sonny Rao at IBM also. e2fsprogs has supported this for a long time
> already.
I have a vague memory that there's some piece of metadata (per-block-group
info, I think) which will overflow at 8kb blocksize. I say this in the
hope that you'll remmeber what it was ;)
> > - ext3_readdir
> > Currently read-ahead 16 sectors when reading a directory, but not
> > if blocksize is more than 8KB. Then I modified to read-ahead
> > one fs-block if blocksize is more than 8KB.
I've rewritten ext3 directory readahead to use the generic pagecache
functions, so changes here shouldn't be needed.
But I haven't yet got around to performance-testing it.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc1/2.6.16-rc1-mm2/broken-out/ext3_readdir-use-generic-readahead.patch
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