Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:05:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:05:43 -0500 Received: from [63.231.122.81] ([63.231.122.81]:12602 "EHLO lynx.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 00:05:35 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 22:04:45 -0700 From: Andreas Dilger To: Daniel Phillips Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Ext2 directory index, updated Message-ID: <20011101220445.U16554@lynx.no> Mail-Followup-To: Daniel Phillips , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: ; from phillips@bonn-fries.net on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 04:36:25AM +0100 X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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/ - 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/