Re: çå: çå: çå: çå: çå: çå: [PATCH] ext4: e2fsprogs: fix inode bitmap num not integer,incompatible for ancient android devices

From: Theodore Y. Ts'o
Date: Tue Jul 03 2018 - 06:36:05 EST


On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 12:58:48AM +0000, Gaoming (ming, consumer BG) wrote:
> And can you help me understand *why* such a choice was made?
> -----if there is such a problem in your devices, how will you do? Is there any other choice?
> ----- of course, you cannot format the partition.

You misunderstand my question. Why was the choice of a blocksize of
1024 made?

I'm trying to understand how many devices, and why any other
manufacture would make, what seems to me, to be a completely insane
choice.

How long has Huawei been using a 1024 byte blocksize? And why? And
for how many devices? Essentially, I'm trying to figure out if this
was a Huawei-specific mistake.

- Ted