Re: Reiser4 + seekdir()

["Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>]

Hans Reiser wrote:
> thanks Artem.  If you are generous enough to help us with those comments
> and renames, I'll take a patch to do it.  If you are too busy though,
> vs, can you fix it?

Hans,

I may prepare and send a patch once I've realized what is the purpose 
and function of these two direntry plugins.


SEEKABLE_HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID and

The HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID plugin's destination is clear - it is general 
purpose plugin which should be used in 99% cases except something 
special is needed. The plugin implies the dentries are roughly 
alphabetically sorted and go in the same order as stat-data. Fine

SEEKABLE_HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID - dunno, it it the same as the 
HASHED_DIR_PLUGIN_ID plugin, but the key assignment algorithm is much 
simpler. What's the purpose of this plugin? I understand that it used to 
be mostly seekable while the first one was not seekable when the 
adjust_dir_pos() feature did not exist. But at the moment, what for is it ?

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityuckiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.