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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I do believe that there are probably more "high-level" heuristics that can > be useful, though. Looking at man common big trees, the ownership issue is > one obvious clue. Sadly the trees obviously end up being _created_ without > owner information, and the chown/chgrp happens later, but it might still > be useable for some clues. > I didn't understand your objection to the heuristic "was the parent directory created within the past 30 seconds?". If the parent and child were created at the same time, chances are that they'll be accessed at the same time? And there's always the `chattr' cop-out, to alter the allocation policy at a chosen point in the tree by administrative act. Any change in ext2 allocation policy at this point in time really, really worries me. If it screws up we'll have 10,000,000 linux boxes running like dead dogs in a year. So if we _do_ make a change, I'd suggest that it be opt-in. Call me a wimp. - - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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