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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: Christopher Li <chrisl@gnuchina.org>,
	"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, DervishD <raul@pleyades.net>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:34:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020620103429.A2464@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E17KoGz-0000y5-00@starship>; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:49:57AM +0200

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:49:57AM +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote:
 
> I don't have code, but let me remind you of this post:
> 
>    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ext2-devel&m=102132142032096&w=2
> 
> A sketch of the coalescing design is at the end.  I'll formalize that.

One question --- just how stable will this be if we boot into a kernel
that doesn't have the coalescing enabled, and start modifying
directories?  We _could_ just teach the current code to clear those
top 8 bits in the parent any time we touch a leaf node, but that's
unnecessarily expensive, so we'd really need to have some way of
either recreating the hint fields from scratch every so often, or of
spotting when they have become badly out-of-date.

Cheers,
 Stephen

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-06-20  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-18 16:08 Shrinking ext3 directories DervishD
2002-06-18 16:10 ` Austin Gonyou
2002-06-18 16:39   ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-18 19:39     ` DervishD
2002-06-18 19:34   ` DervishD
2002-06-18 16:21 ` Padraig Brady
2002-06-18 16:54   ` David Lang
2002-06-18 19:35   ` DervishD
2002-06-18 21:50 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-18 22:18   ` Alexander Viro
2002-06-19  9:38     ` DervishD
2002-06-19 10:37     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 17:03       ` [Ext2-devel] " Christopher Li
2002-06-19 20:10         ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 20:34           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 20:13         ` Andrew Morton
2002-06-19 22:43           ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-19 23:54             ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21  3:28               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21  7:03                 ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-21 14:02                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-24  7:12                     ` Helge Hafting
2002-06-21 16:23                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21 15:06                 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-07-04  4:48                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-07-04 14:15                     ` jlnance
2002-07-05  2:11                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-22  5:53                 ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-22 20:59                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-23  0:01                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-23  7:57                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-19 22:49         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-20  0:24           ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-20  9:34           ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2002-06-20 10:18             ` Andreas Dilger
2002-06-20 13:45               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-06-21 14:54                 ` Ville Herva
2002-06-21 15:08                   ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21 15:38                     ` Ville Herva
2002-06-21 16:15                       ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-06-21 18:44                         ` Ville Herva
2002-06-20 16:26               ` Bill Davidsen

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