Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3

From: jw schultz
Date: Fri Sep 05 2003 - 19:20:11 EST


On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:22:04PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
>
> this is 2nd version of the patch. changes:
> - error handling seems completed
> - lots of cleanups and comments
> - few minor bug fixed
>
> this version of the patch tries to solve couple
> of corner cases:
> - very long truncate
> - rewrite
>
> it survived dbench, bonnie++ and fsx tests.

Seems to me that moving to extents offers the perfect
opportunity to eliminate the 1 block limit of extended
attributes. I don't see any sign of that in this patch but
i might have missed it.
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