From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext2 docs
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:07:03 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041108200703.GA3505@logos.cnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041108210751.GA2946@pclin040.win.tue.nl>
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:07:51PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 03:30:07PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> > > +oldalloc Enable the old block allocator. Orlov should
> > > + have better performance, we'd like to get some
> > > + feedback if it's the contrary for you.
> > > +orlov (*) Use the Orlov block allocator.
> > > + (See http://lwn.net/Articles/14633/ and
> > > + http://lwn.net/Articles/14446/.)
> >
> > Did you really mean to use the second link "14446" ?
> >
> > It points to a patch from Ted fixing a memory leak into the Orlov allocator,
> > which is not very useful.
> >
> > You probably meant http://lwn.net/Articles/14447/, which contains the full
> > Orlov ext3 patch?
>
> No, not at all. I am a collector of information, and 14447 has nothing
> at all, but 14446 documents the EXT2_TOPDIR_FL flag that is undocumented
> in the kernel source. The flag can be set using chattr +T.
OK dokie.
PS: Maybe the flag should be documented? Its pretty important one.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-08 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-08 13:55 [PATCH] ext2 docs Andries Brouwer
2004-11-08 17:30 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-11-08 21:07 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-11-08 20:07 ` Marcelo Tosatti [this message]
2004-11-08 23:47 ` Andries Brouwer
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