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From: Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu>
To: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXT3 extents against 2.6.0-test7
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 17:39:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F8B1BA1.4020800@wmich.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031013222747.37f5ee7b.alex@clusterfs.com>

Alex Tomas wrote:
> changes since last publication:
> 1) few bugs fixed: they caused extents tree corruption
> 2) several asserts added
> 3) binary search used to find an extent
> 4) last found entry is cached: this allows to skip tree
>    traversal and saves cpu a bit
> 5) truncate_sem is used to serialize get_block()/trucate()
> 
> 
> with best wishes, Alex
> 
> 


I've been using extents since the patch was introduced.  I haven't seen 
any corruption when using it with large files (ie. multimedia only).  In 
short, has there been any progress with getting fsck support? I'm 100% 
in support of this patch going into mainline kernel as a non-default 
option.  It's perfect for partitions that deal with large files, but 
still want ext3's fs corruption protection.  I average 10700 blocks an 
extent and see an extreme increase in performance over non-extents ext3 
doing operations on files of the same size.   I guess it's about time to 
update.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-13 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-13 18:27 [PATCH] EXT3 extents against 2.6.0-test7 Alex Tomas
2003-10-13 21:39 ` Ed Sweetman [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20031014212359.42243025.alex@clusterfs.com>
2003-10-17 19:32     ` Ed Sweetman
2003-10-17 20:10       ` Alex Tomas
2003-10-17 20:13         ` Ed Sweetman
2003-10-17 20:41           ` Alex Tomas
2003-10-17 21:22             ` Ed Sweetman
2003-10-17 23:05               ` Alex Tomas
2003-10-18  0:07                 ` Ed Sweetman

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