Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 18:07:03 -0200
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
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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.
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