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From: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: coly li <colyli@gmail.com>, "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@us.ibm.com>,
	"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: block groups with no inode tables
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:59:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184083189.3759.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184089232.13379.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:40 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:30 +0800, coly li wrote:
> > Hi, once we decide to do this, how about storing inode inside the
> > directory ?
> 
> Which directory?
I think Coly is refering to the idea of
store-inode-inside-in-directory-file.

It's one way to implement the dynamic inode table allocation. With it
you don't have system-wide inode tables anymore, but all inode
structures are directly stored in the directory file.

> 
> > IMHO, the latter one is more attractive :-)
> 
> Sounds like a mess to me.  Consider ln and mv.
> 
> > Coly
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-10 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-10 17:12 block groups with no inode tables Jose R. Santos
2007-07-10 17:30 ` coly li
2007-07-10 17:40   ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-10 15:59     ` Mingming Cao [this message]
2007-07-10 19:09       ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-11  4:50         ` Andreas Dilger
2007-07-10 20:30 ` Theodore Tso
2007-07-11  4:31   ` Andreas Dilger

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