From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:56:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:56:05 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:33806 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 12:55:52 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Tony Gale Subject: Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:58:43 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Alexander Viro , Andreas Dilger In-Reply-To: <0105311813431J.06233@starship> <993049198.3089.2.camel@syntax.dera.gov.uk> In-Reply-To: <993049198.3089.2.camel@syntax.dera.gov.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062018584308.00439@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote: > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how to > deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. This makes > it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs. Good, the file format isn't finalized, this is only recommended for use on a test partition. > And, since I used it, and have since stopped using it, I have a problem > in what all my disk free space disappears over a couple of days - I have > to run fsck to recover it, were it appears as deleted inodes with zero > dtime. I can't say for sure that the dir index stuff is at fault though. It could well be, I'd appreciate any more data you have on that. > I am currently using 2.4.6-pre3 without the dir patch installed. I am > using the grsecurity patch though. > > I have just upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.21 in the hope of sorting it out. If > that fails I'll revert to a clean 2.4.6-pre kernel. Other ideas welcome. > > -tony > > On 31 May 2001 18:13:43 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Changes: > > > > - Freshen to 2.4.5 > > - EXT2_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag finalized > > - Break up ext2_add_entry for aesthetic reasons (Al Viro) > > - Handle more than 64K directories per directory (Andreas Dilger) > > - Bug fix: new inode no longer inherits index flag (Andreas Dilger) > > - Bug fix: correct handling of error on index create (Al Viro) > > > > To-Do: > > > > - More factoring of ext2_add_entry > > - Fall back to linear search in case of corrupted index > > - Finalize hash function