From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rene Herman Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:38:20 +0100 Message-ID: <45A0BF8C.4040508@gmail.com> References: <20061216094421.416a271e.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20061216095702.3e6f1d1f.akpm@osdl.org> <458434B0.4090506@oracle.com> <1166297434.26330.34.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1166304080.13548.8.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <459152B1.9040106@zytor.com> <1168140954.2153.1.camel@nigel.suspend2.net> <45A08269.4050504@zytor.com> <45A083F2.5000000@zytor.com> <20070107085526.GR24090@1wt.eu> <20070107011542.3496bc76.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Willy Tarreau , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , git@vger.kernel.org, nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, "J.H." , Randy Dunlap , Pavel Machek , kernel list , webmaster@kernel.org, "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" X-From: linux-kernel-owner+glk-linux-kernel-3=40m.gmane.org-S932460AbXAGJkA@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 07 10:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H3UW1-0003S6-8p for glk-linux-kernel-3@gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:40:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932460AbXAGJkA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:40:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932461AbXAGJkA (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:40:00 -0500 Received: from smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.200]:52344 "EHLO smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932460AbXAGJj7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Jan 2007 04:39:59 -0500 Received: from [213.51.146.189] (port=41265 helo=smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1H3UVM-0007Du-Nf; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:39:52 +0100 Received: from cc334381-b.groni1.gr.home.nl ([82.73.14.214]:47088 helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtp2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1H3UVK-0008Bl-6c; Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:39:50 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20070107011542.3496bc76.akpm@osdl.org> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 01/07/2007 10:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > Yeah, slowly-growing directories will get splattered all over the > disk. > > Possible short-term fixes would be to just allocate up to (say) eight > blocks when we grow a directory by one block. Or teach the > directory-growth code to use ext3 reservations. > > Longer-term people are talking about things like on-disk > rerservations. But I expect directories are being forgotten about in > all of that. I wish people would just talk about de2fsrag... ;-\ Rene