From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] On-disk format for large number of subdirectors Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:29:28 -0600 Message-ID: <20061018192928.GF3509@schatzie.adilger.int> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:58345 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161298AbWJRT33 (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:29:29 -0400 To: Theodore Ts'o Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Oct 18, 2006 02:24 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On-disk format for large number of subdirectories > > - EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK (0x0020?) - allow directories to have > > 65000 subdirectories (i_nlinks) by setting i_nlinks = 1 for such > directories. RO_COMPAT protects old filesystems from unlinking such > directories incorrectly and losing all files therein. > > Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Looks good. Will try to get a new patch out with this support. > Index: e2fsprogs/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h > =================================================================== > --- e2fsprogs.orig/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h 2006-10-18 01:42:48.000000000 -0400 > +++ e2fsprogs/lib/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h 2006-10-18 01:49:51.000000000 -0400 > @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ > /* > * Maximal count of links to a file > */ > -#define EXT2_LINK_MAX 32000 > +#define EXT2_LINK_MAX 65000 > > /* > * Macro-instructions used to manage several block sizes > @@ -606,6 +606,7 @@ > /* #define EXT2_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_BTREE_DIR 0x0004 not used */ > #define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HUGE_FILE 0x0008 > #define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_GDT_CSUM 0x0010 > +#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_DIR_NLINK 0x0020 > > #define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_COMPRESSION 0x0001 > #define EXT2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_FILETYPE 0x0002 Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.