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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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