[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 15/15] ocfs2: Write support for directories with inline data

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Sep 20 17:13:15 PDT 2007


On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:33:54PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> Create all new directories with OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL and the inline data
> bytes formatted as an empty directory. Inode size field reflects the actual
> amount of inline data available, which makes searching for dirent space
> very similar to the regular directory search.
> 
> Inline-data directories are automatically pushed out to extents on any
> insert request which is too large for the available space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh at oracle.com>

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker at oracle.com>


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