Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2

Daniel Phillips
2001-06-20T17:25:19Z

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