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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext2 directory index, updated
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:04:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011101220445.U16554@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15zV86-0000o4-00@starship.berlin>
In-Reply-To: <E15zV86-0000o4-00@starship.berlin>; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:36:25AM +0100

On Nov 02, 2001  04:36 +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> I ran it through some basic tests, up to half a million files/directory, 
> without problems.  There are still a few minor warts to clean up, including 
> still not having settled on a final-final hash function, although it looks 
> likely that it's going to end up being dx_hack_hash, with a more respectable 
> name.

Out of curiosity, does the blkdev-in-pagecache change make the indexed-dir
code simpler?  You should just be able to do bread() for a directory
block and it will work, because the "buffer" is actually backed by the
page cache.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-02  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-02  3:36 Ext2 directory index, updated Daniel Phillips
2001-11-02  5:04 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-11-04  2:28 Daniel Phillips
2001-11-04  2:44 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-04 22:09 ` Christian Laursen
2001-11-04 22:24   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-04 22:54     ` Christian Laursen
2001-11-04 23:01     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-04 23:09       ` Gábor Lénárt
2001-11-05 22:10       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-06  0:38         ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05  1:43   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05  7:48     ` Ville Herva
2001-11-05  9:53       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05 22:59     ` Christian Laursen
2001-11-05 23:13       ` Daniel Phillips
2001-11-05 23:45         ` Andreas Dilger
2001-11-08  7:21     ` Christian Laursen
2002-03-04 11:03 Ext2 Directory Index, updated Daniel Phillips

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