From afc7cbca5bfd556c3e12d3acefbee5ab0cbd4670 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Sato Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:58:27 -0500 Subject: ext4: Support large blocksize up to PAGESIZE This patch set supports large block size(>4k, <=64k) in ext4, just enlarging the block size limit. But it is NOT possible to have 64kB blocksize on ext4 without some changes to the directory handling code. The reason is that an empty 64kB directory block would have a rec_len == (__u16)2^16 == 0, and this would cause an error to be hit in the filesystem. The proposed solution is treat 64k rec_len with a an impossible value like rec_len = 0xffff to handle this. The Patch-set consists of the following 2 patches. [1/2] ext4: enlarge blocksize - Allow blocksize up to pagesize [2/2] ext4: fix rec_len overflow - prevent rec_len from overflow with 64KB blocksize Now on 64k page ppc64 box runs with this patch set we could create a 64k block size ext4dev, and able to handle empty directory block. Signed-off-by: Takashi Sato Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao --- include/linux/ext4_fs.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/ext4_fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h index 97dd409d5f4a..dfe4487fc739 100644 --- a/include/linux/ext4_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs.h @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes */ #define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE 1024 -#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 4096 -#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 +#define EXT4_MAX_BLOCK_SIZE 65536 +#define EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE 10 #ifdef __KERNEL__ # define EXT4_BLOCK_SIZE(s) ((s)->s_blocksize) #else -- cgit v1.2.2