[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ocfs2: Introduce dir free space list

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:24:08PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> The only operation which doesn't get faster with directory indexing is
> insert, which still has to walk the entire unindexed directory portion to
> find a free block. This patch provides an improvement in directory insert
> performance by maintaining a singly linked list of directory leaf blocks
> which have space for additional dirents.
> 
> As the disk format is now finalized, we also turn on directory indexing support.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>

	Looks good.  I realize that you're going to add the versioning
support.  And that on-disk trailer structure needs offset annotation.

Joel

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