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 13:25:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:25:09 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:14351 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:25:02 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Theodore Tso , Tony Gale Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:27:57 +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> <20010620120213.B22993@think.thunk.org> In-Reply-To: <20010620120213.B22993@think.thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062019275709.00439@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 18:02, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:59:58PM +0100, 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. > > Getting e2fsck to deal with directory indexing is on my todo list at > this point. > > Daniel, do you have any preliminary patches to start with, or do I > need to start from scratch? No, I haven't written any user space code for this at all, the only source is the patch itself. The debug code might be helpful - show_buckets. It's incomplete though, it only shows one level of the tree. I need to do something about that. I'll also spiff up my pseudocode and data structure documentation and forward it. -- Daniel