Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:09:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:09:58 -0400 Received: from 12-234-169-113.client.attbi.com ([12.234.169.113]:48593 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:09:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:03:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Li X-X-Sender: chrisl@localhost.localdomain To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" cc: Alexander Viro , DervishD , Linux-kernel , Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories In-Reply-To: <20020619113734.D2658@redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 960 Lines: 29 On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 06:18:49PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > IOW, making sure that empty blocks in the end of directory get freed > > is a matter of 10-20 lines. If you want such patch - just tell, it's > > half an hour of work... > > It's certainly easier at the tail, but with htree we may have > genuinely enormous directories and being able to hole-punch arbitrary > coalesced blocks could be a huge win. Also, doing the coalescing I would can contribute on that. I am thinking about it anyway. Daniel might already has some code there. I have a silly question, where is that ext3 CVS? Under sourcefourge ext2/ext3 or gkernel? Chris - 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/