[Ocfs2-devel] [IMPORTANT] OCFS2 revision 946

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 02:52:21PM +0800, Ling, Xiaofeng wrote:
> So seems the file_entry struct is much like the ext2_inode struct in ext2/3 file system now.

	Yup.  And the directories *are* ext3 directories.  Literally.
Yay open source.

> Another effect is we lose a simple way to list the all files without going to each directory recursively.:)

	Do you mean that you scan the dir alloc file and dump the names
you see there?  That's crack, I'm glad it no longer works :-)

> How about the root, is there a file_entry for root directory and as the first one in "inode alloc" file?

	Yes, there is.  It's block 3.

Joel

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