From: Mingming Cao Subject: Re: block groups with no inode tables Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:59:49 -0400 Message-ID: <1184083189.3759.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20070710121221.5478a1e3@rx8> <1184088605.17636.1.camel@colyt43.site> <1184089232.13379.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Reply-To: cmm@us.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: coly li , "Jose R. Santos" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: Dave Kleikamp Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:56882 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751111AbXGJS7r (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:47 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6AIxlHr021886 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:47 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l6AIxlRw551032 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:47 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6AIxkGu010728 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:59:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1184089232.13379.6.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:40 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 01:30 +0800, coly li wrote: > > Hi, once we decide to do this, how about storing inode inside the > > directory ? > > Which directory? I think Coly is refering to the idea of store-inode-inside-in-directory-file. It's one way to implement the dynamic inode table allocation. With it you don't have system-wide inode tables anymore, but all inode structures are directly stored in the directory file. > > > IMHO, the latter one is more attractive :-) > > Sounds like a mess to me. Consider ln and mv. > > > Coly >