[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 14/15] dx_dirs v11: add an initial man page entry for indexed-dirs

Coly Li coly.li at suse.de
Sun Apr 11 01:10:11 PDT 2010


This patch add an initial man page entry for indexed-dirs feature
string.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coly.li at suse.de>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at suse.com>
---
 mkfs.ocfs2/mkfs.ocfs2.8.in |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkfs.ocfs2/mkfs.ocfs2.8.in b/mkfs.ocfs2/mkfs.ocfs2.8.in
index c7a7888..a148133 100644
--- a/mkfs.ocfs2/mkfs.ocfs2.8.in
+++ b/mkfs.ocfs2/mkfs.ocfs2.8.in
@@ -175,6 +175,10 @@ and number of inodes (files, directories, symbolic links) each group owns. It is
 to limit the maximum amount of space or inodes user can have. See a documentation of
 quota-tools package for more details.
 .RE
+.TP
+\fBindexed-dirs\fR
+Enable directory indexing support. With this feature enabled, the file system creates indexed tree for non-inline directory entries. For large scale directories, directory entry lookup perfromance from the indexed tree is faster then from the legacy directory blocks.
+.RE
 
 .TP
 \fB\-\-fs\-feature\-level=\fR\fR\fIfeature\-level\fR
-- 
1.7.0.2




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