On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 04:34:59PM +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote:
> Handle filesystems with many hard links that have more than ~700M inodes.
> The float variable lacks precision at this scale.

This was fixed in e2fsprogs mainline a slightly different way.  Just
above it:

                                range = ((float) (ino - lowval)) /
                                        (highval - lowval);
                                if (range > 0.9)
                                        range = 0.9;
                                if (range < 0.1)
                                        range = 0.1;

The problem with just correcting the midpoint calculation as you
proposed in your patch is that you could end up doing a linear search
through the whole array in some really abberrant cases.  With this fix
applied in e2fsprogs, the patch below isn't required.

Regards,

                                        - Ted

> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Girish Shilamkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Signed-off-by: Kalpak Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> Index: e2fsprogs-1.40.1/lib/ext2fs/icount.c
> ===================================================================
> --- e2fsprogs-1.40.1.orig/lib/ext2fs/icount.c
> +++ e2fsprogs-1.40.1/lib/ext2fs/icount.c
> @@ -376,6 +376,10 @@ static struct ext2_icount_el *get_icount
>                                       range = 0.1;
>                       }
>                       mid = low + ((int) (range * (high-low)));
> +                     if (mid > high)
> +                             mid = high;
> +                     if (mid < low)
> +                             mid = low;
>               }
>  #endif
>               if (ino == icount->list[mid].ino) {
> 
> 
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