Re: ext2 feature request

2000-05-01 Thread tytso
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:29:42 +0200 (MEST) From: Lennert Buytenhek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eeeeh. not quite. Because we reserve the first 1024 bytes of an ext2 fs for putting the boot loader, we put the superblock at offset 1024. For 1k blocks, this means the superblock ends up

Re: optimal number of files in directory on ext2

2000-03-19 Thread tytso
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 23:08:38 +0100 (CET) From: Michal Pise [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was asked to create the application which will handle about 100 000 000 relatively small (about 1-2k) files. I decided to make a multi-level directory tree, but I don't know which is the optimal

Re: lost partition table

2000-01-25 Thread tytso
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 12:13:08 +0100 From: Guest section DW [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, Jan 21, 2000 at 09:27:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, there are two such tools. (i) fixdisktable (http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/fat32.html) (ii)

Re: [patch] [possible race in ext2] Re: how to write get_block?

1999-10-14 Thread tytso
From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:34:36 +0100 (BST) The _fast_ quick fix is to maintain a per-inode list of dirty buffers and to invalidate that list when we do a delete. This works for directories if we only support truncate back to zero