[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 07/16] Add extent tree operation for xattr value.

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:14:12AM +0800, TaoMa wrote:
> Mark Fasheh wrote:
>> It should *not* depend on sparse. I'm pretty sure we discussed this
>> already...
>>   
> Sorry for my bad memory :(, but I really can't recall it.
> As for xattr tree, we should have a very large possibility that we will  
> have a sparse tree because of the hash value.
> So we don't allow the user to use extent tree when he doesn't set  
> "sparse"? only large ea are supported then?
> That also means I should add another bug fix to check whether the sparse  
> is enabled when creating a xattr tree.

	You can support sparse EAs even if sparse *files* are disabled.
The kernel has the sparse handling code already if INCOMPAT_XATTR is set.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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