From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] minix: fix add link - wrong position calculation
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:49:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081231014923.GY28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081231012640.GA32239@wotan.suse.de>
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:26:41AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > commit 4a66af9eaa9531372cfcb9e20103ed147c729ff9
> > Author: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Oct 16 01:25:21 2007 -0700
> > Commit: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
> > CommitDate: Tue Oct 16 09:42:57 2007 -0700
> >
> > minixfs: convert to new aops
> >
> > Is minixfs getting THAT little use, or is this bustage more subtle
> > than it appears?
>
> Not getting used, I'd suspect (although I definitely have used it -- I
> converted it to large block size for testing fsblock, probably I didn't
> test softlinks).
Much simpler: there's one index for which the expressions are equivalent ;-)
Count how many entries does it take on minixfs to get to 4Kb. Now think
how many had used that sucker on directories with >= 128 entries...
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-28 23:25 [PATCH] minix: fix add link - wrong position calculation Evgeniy Dushistov
2008-12-30 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31 1:26 ` Nick Piggin
2008-12-31 1:49 ` Al Viro [this message]
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