On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:15:28PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote: > Hi Dave, > > My recollection is that it used to default to on, it was disabled > because it needs to map the buffer into a single contiguous chunk > of kernel memory. This was placing a lot of pressure on the memory > remapping code, so we made it not default to on as reworking the > code to deal with non contig memory was looking like a major > effort.
Exactly. The code works but tends to go OOM pretty fast at least when the dir blocksize code is bigger than the page size. I should give the code a spin on my ppc box with 64k pages if it works better there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
