Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751656AbWCFVmF (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:42:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752426AbWCFVmE (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:42:04 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]:53923 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751129AbWCFVmC convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:42:02 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=eLR8RtCNiY9ywVh87N9ur8E7fZpgmBS71HH0R79G1u2sUk2Xe9Ht8z2pkA5/X9t5tJEn21Kb9KBbCt2oWiAjnNfh6FupOKYDawlkO27Al7RsTNPzcFC7qO9EVcDaDVTEC/TJU1MfenY34+pU5NcBbdoWGyl4RmKBMu6C3QaiJ1E= Message-ID: <4ae3c140603061342r26ca2226s2e6e41792104c633@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 16:42:01 -0500 From: "Xin Zhao" To: linux-kernel Subject: Why ext3 uses different policies to allocate inodes for dirs and files? Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 453 Lines: 12 The policy seems to distribute dir inodes uniformly on all block groups. Why do we want to do this? Isn't it better to create a dir inode close to its parent dir inode? Thanks in advance for your help! Xin - 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/