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SubjectRe: [00/41] Large Blocksize Support V7 (adds memmap support)
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
>> But that's not my place to say, and I'm actually not arguing that high
>> order pagecache does not have uses (especially as a practical,
>> shorter-term solution which is unintrusive to filesystems).
>>
>> So no, I don't think I'm really going against the basics of what we agreed
>> in Cambridge. But it sounds like it's still being billed as first-order
>> support right off the bat here.
>
> Well its seems that we have different interpretations of what was agreed
> on. My understanding was that the large blocksize patchset was okay
> provided that I supply an acceptable mmap implementation and put a
> warning in.

I think all we agreed on was that both patches needed significant work
and would need to be judged after they were completed ;-)

There was talk of putting Christoph's approach in more-or-less as-is
as a very specialized and limited application ... but I don't think
we concluded anything for the more general and long-term case apart
from "this is hard" ;-)

M.
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