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From: Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud-S783fYmB3Ccdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
To: Ryusuke Konishi <ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>
Cc: reinoud-S783fYmB3Ccdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org,
	users-JrjvKiOkagjYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: How does NILFS2 handle directory management
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:27:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914102731.GA154@aardappel.13thmonkey.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090911.154452.43227079.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 03:44:52PM +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> You mean hashing (on-memory) by file names?
> Well, I agree.  Such optimization would improve directory operations of
> the current code without disk format change.

Well, the strength is that you don't remember the directory contents, only the
hashes, diroffset and name length; this means nearly no memory use. Its also
authorative: not found in the hash means its not in the dir.

> I think it should be considered along with ext3 approach.

What is is the ext3 approach? What is different compared to ext2? And is it
really such a big improvement? Will it complicate directory reading/writing
more?

With regards,
Reinoud Zandijk

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-10 19:16 How does NILFS2 handle directory management Prasenjit Giri
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2009-09-10 19:26   ` Reinoud Zandijk
     [not found]     ` <20090910192619.GA1263-bVHBekiX4bNgoMqBc1r0ESegHCQxtGRMHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  1:21       ` Ryusuke Konishi
     [not found]         ` <20090911.102118.69189169.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  3:48           ` Jiro SEKIBA
     [not found]             ` <873a6u16qy.wl%jir-27yqGEOhnJbQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  4:13               ` Ryusuke Konishi
2009-09-11  3:58           ` Prasenjit Giri
     [not found]             ` <2324ff2b0909102058g1ee407fco3f2482b4732dacca-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  6:23               ` Ryusuke Konishi
2009-09-11  5:22           ` Reinoud Zandijk
     [not found]             ` <20090911052213.GA24899-5cYspOl2ggRz6xQTk39kMVfVdRo2wo/d@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-11  6:44               ` Ryusuke Konishi
     [not found]                 ` <20090911.154452.43227079.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 10:27                   ` Reinoud Zandijk [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <20090914102731.GA154-5cYspOl2ggRz6xQTk39kMVfVdRo2wo/d@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-24  8:49                       ` Jiro SEKIBA
     [not found]                         ` <87hbusbud6.wl%jir-27yqGEOhnJbQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-25 12:21                           ` Reinoud Zandijk
     [not found]                             ` <20090925122109.GD6624-5cYspOl2ggRz6xQTk39kMVfVdRo2wo/d@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-25 15:47                               ` Ryusuke Konishi
     [not found]                                 ` <20090926.004730.113223425.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-25 16:23                                   ` Reinoud Zandijk
     [not found]                                     ` <20090925162334.GA14945-5cYspOl2ggRz6xQTk39kMVfVdRo2wo/d@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-26  1:16                                       ` Ryusuke Konishi
     [not found]                                         ` <20090926.101634.31873031.ryusuke-sG5X7nlA6pw@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-27 22:10                                           ` Reinoud Zandijk
     [not found]                                             ` <20090927221049.GA14618-5cYspOl2ggRz6xQTk39kMVfVdRo2wo/d@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-27 23:03                                               ` Jiro SEKIBA
2009-09-27 11:34                                       ` Jiro SEKIBA

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