Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752715AbYLaBtf (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:49:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751959AbYLaBt1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:49:27 -0500 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:54285 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751526AbYLaBt1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:49:27 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:49:23 +0000 From: Al Viro To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , Evgeniy Dushistov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] minix: fix add link - wrong position calculation Message-ID: <20081231014923.GY28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20081228232550.GA11504@rain> <20081230153230.8e72dc88.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20081231012640.GA32239@wotan.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081231012640.GA32239@wotan.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1095 Lines: 25 On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:26:41AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > commit 4a66af9eaa9531372cfcb9e20103ed147c729ff9 > > Author: Nick Piggin > > AuthorDate: Tue Oct 16 01:25:21 2007 -0700 > > Commit: Linus Torvalds > > CommitDate: Tue Oct 16 09:42:57 2007 -0700 > > > > minixfs: convert to new aops > > > > Is minixfs getting THAT little use, or is this bustage more subtle > > than it appears? > > Not getting used, I'd suspect (although I definitely have used it -- I > converted it to large block size for testing fsblock, probably I didn't > test softlinks). Much simpler: there's one index for which the expressions are equivalent ;-) Count how many entries does it take on minixfs to get to 4Kb. Now think how many had used that sucker on directories with >= 128 entries... -- 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/