From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:23:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080225202300.GC8386@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C2FBB2.30404@redhat.com>
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:32:34AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Are you sure? This was her patch comment, from
> [PATCH] ext4: Don't set EXTENTS_FL flag for fast symlinks:
You're right, I confused myself.
> > But you do raise a good point that we need to support using the
> > extents format in order to support blocks > 2**32, so we can't just
> > arbitrary convert all symlinks to the old-style direct block maps.
>
> ... so I think we really *should* be unconditionally storing *long*
> symlinks in extent format, on ext4... right?
Yes, I think so. Being liberal in what you receive is probably a good
idea, but we should only store new symlinks in one standard format,
and the extents format makes sense since it will allow us to support
48-bit block numbers.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-25 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-04 22:42 What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics) Theodore Ts'o, Theodore Ts'o
2007-11-05 2:15 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-11-05 4:32 ` Theodore Tso
2007-11-05 15:06 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-12-17 17:11 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 22:34 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-12-17 22:59 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 23:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-12-18 3:32 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 8:13 ` Florian Weimer
2007-12-18 19:10 ` What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics) - [RFC] FLEX_BG bmap and itable allocation patch Jose R. Santos
2008-02-11 4:51 ` What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics) Theodore Tso
2008-02-11 5:08 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-11 7:24 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-19 5:09 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-20 18:46 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-21 14:05 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-21 16:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-22 23:14 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-23 0:15 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-25 4:20 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-25 15:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-25 16:01 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-02-25 17:32 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-02-25 20:23 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-02-29 15:43 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-29 19:59 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-02-29 22:49 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-02 3:24 ` Jose R. Santos
2008-03-05 16:59 ` Jose R. Santos
2008-03-13 18:11 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-20 20:32 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-02 0:09 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-07 17:12 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-18 18:43 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-21 16:41 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-23 7:32 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-04-23 11:55 ` Theodore Tso
2008-04-23 18:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-04-28 19:44 ` The changes I made to the undo-mgr (Re: What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics)) Theodore Tso
2008-05-24 23:54 ` What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics) Theodore Tso
2008-06-03 2:40 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-17 12:03 ` Theodore Tso
2008-03-02 23:50 ` Christian Kujau
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-10-16 4:48 Theodore Ts'o
2007-10-16 5:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-10-16 16:41 ` Jose R. Santos
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