[Ocfs2-devel] OCFS2 features RFC

[Daniel Phillips]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:35:53AM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
>>-Htree support
> 
> Please not.  htree is just the worst possible directory format around.
> Do some nice hashed or btree directories, but don't try this odd hack
> again.

Could you be specific about what you think is odd about it?

> Especially as the only reason it was developed for in ext2/3
> doesn't work very well in a cluster filesystem anyway

In what way?

 > to access the
> new htree all nodes would have to support the format anyway, so the
> whole easy up/downgrade thing doesn't matter at all.

Good point, and this only affects the leaf node format.

Regards,

Daniel