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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>
Cc: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>,
	Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] d_ino considered harmful
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:04:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <30568.1276797848@jrobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276721084.13788.53.camel@lap75545.ornl.gov>


David Dillow:
> For example, our main Lustre scratch space has over 285 million files in
> it, and using find -inum takes over 72 hours to walk the tree using
	:::
> Using ne2scan -- which uses libext2fs and combines the inode scan and
> the name lookup -- takes over 48 hours to generate a list of candidate
> files for the purge example. With an optimized inode scan and the custom
	:::

While I've never heard of ne2scan, I am interested in this simplified
problem such as "find the pathname(s) from an inum in a huge fs."
Is ne2scan essentially equivalent to "debugfs ncheck inum"?

About Valeris's patch, as long as "ls -i" is useful/helpful,
> +	/* Use of d_ino without st_dev is always buggy. */
is not true.


J. R. Okajima

  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16 18:59 [PATCH] d_ino considered harmful Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-06-16 19:58   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:15 ` Jeff Layton
2010-06-16 19:58   ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 19:54 ` [PATCH v2] " Valerie Aurora
2010-06-16 20:44   ` David Dillow
2010-06-17 18:04     ` J. R. Okajima [this message]
2010-06-17 18:17       ` David Dillow
2010-06-17 18:58       ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-18  1:41       ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-18  2:57         ` J. R. Okajima
2010-06-17 17:54   ` Jamie Lokier
2010-06-17 19:10     ` Valerie Aurora
2010-06-17 23:39   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-18 19:41     ` Valerie Aurora

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