From: Nathan Scott <nscott@aconex.com>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: lord@xfs.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Directories > 2GB
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 12:07:15 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160446035.8366.42.camel@edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061010015512.GQ11034@melbourne.sgi.com>
On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 11:55 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:53:02PM -0500, Steve Lord wrote:
> > You might want to think about keeping the directory a little
> > more contiguous than individual disk blocks. XFS does have
> > code in it to allocate the directory in chunks larger than
> > a single file system block. It does not get used on linux
> > because the code was written under the assumption you can
> > see the whole chunk as a single piece of memory which does not
> > work to well in the linux kernel.
>
> This code is enabled and seems to work in Linux. I don't know if it
> passes xfsqa so I don't know how reliable this feature is.
It did at one point - though I've not tested that combination for
awhile, I expect it will still work fine. It should - the
artist-formerly-known-as-pagebuf does handle multiple discontiguous
pages, and the dir2 code is using that memory in a way thats going
to work correctly, IIRC.
cheer
--
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 2:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-04 16:56 Directories > 2GB Andreas Dilger
2006-10-04 17:51 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-04 19:09 ` Peter Grandi
2006-10-09 21:53 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-10 1:55 ` David Chinner
2006-10-10 2:07 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2006-10-10 2:15 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-10 9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-10-10 23:31 ` David Chinner
2006-10-11 16:49 ` Steve Lord
2006-10-12 0:26 ` David Chinner
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