Re: How does NILFS2 handle directory management

[Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud-S783fYmB3Ccdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Prasenjit Giri,

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:46:04AM +0530, Prasenjit Giri wrote:
> Even after looking through various sites, forums, mailing lists I could not
> uncover the present directoy management of NILFS2.
> 
> As I see a B-tree directory management in your long term to do list, it
> would be really nice if someone would ought to share the information
> regarding the present directory management of NILFS2

Currently directories are recorded just as a sequential file but not filled
with user data but with dirent entries in their blocks like ext2fs does.
Nothing special about that :)

I dont know if b+tree directory management would be preferable though. With
some smart caching all directory operations can be made O(1) anyway.

With regards,
Reinoud Zandijk