From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Subranshu Patel <spatel.ml@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Block allocation in EXT4
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 12:54:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <521B9657.1050308@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEUQceiEUQOHf8ujjbJF2Q3HSvcqo7r=KOfgoCkFGB_tE6EdcA@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/26/13 10:55 AM, Subranshu Patel wrote:
> In EXT4 it seems that both direct/indirect and extent tree based
> block allocation is used. I used debugfs and it seems that the root
> inode uses the direct/indirect block allocation. The other files and
> direcyories used extent based allocation.
>
> Do all the EXT4 reserved inode (0 -11) use the direct/indirect
> allocation scheme?
Nope; looks like a leftover oddity from old mkfs.
mkfs-time created dirs weren't created w/ the extents flag until:
commit 1afb468b9a80031b39eab37272709f45727fb221
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Fri Jun 10 13:58:18 2011 -0400
libext2fs: create extent-based directories if the extents feature is enabled
This allows mke2fs to create the root and lost+found directories using
extents.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
so newly mkfs'd filesystems w/ newer e2fsprogs shouldn't exhibit
what you see.
-Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-26 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-26 15:55 Block allocation in EXT4 Subranshu Patel
2013-08-26 17:45 ` Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2013-08-26 17:54 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
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