Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:26:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:26:56 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust42.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.42]:29875 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:26:55 -0400 Subject: Re: Add extended attributes to ext2/3 From: Alan Cox To: Andreas Dilger Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher , "Theodore Ts'o" , Christoph Hellwig , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20021015220144.GK15552@clusterfs.com> References: <200210151640.15581.agruen@suse.de> <20021015182943.GA1335@think.thunk.org> <200210152300.32190.agruen@suse.de> <20021015220144.GK15552@clusterfs.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 21 Oct 2002 11:48:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1035197306.27318.21.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 15 On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:01, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Just as an FYI - marking ext3 inodes dirty is an expensive operation, > and should be done only once if at all possible (not sure if the same > code applies to ext3 as you are discussing ext2, but I thought I should > mention it). Yes its noticable that 2.4 makes ext3 inodes dirty unneccessarily in some cases. Its one of the things Pete Zaitsev of mysql pointed out to me. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/