Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories

Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19T22:44:16Z

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 01:13:50PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > I have a silly question, where is that ext3 CVS? Under sourcefourge
> > ext2/ext3 or gkernel?
>
> See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/ext3/ - about halfway
> down the page.
>
> btw, I merged all the ext3 htree stuff into 2.5.23 yesterday. Haven't
> tested it much at all yet.

Well, it has some interesting properties, such as the hash function
being a constant:

+ return 80; /* FIXME: for test only */

which I assume was an artifact of some testing Christopher was doing.
:)

I'm checking out a proper hash function at the moment.

Cheers,
Stephen