Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 01 Dec 2001 12:31:51 +0300 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Block I/O Enchancements, 2.5.1-pre2 |
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Nikita Danilov wrote:
>Hans Reiser writes: > > >Having 64 bit inode numbers is good, but we *can* live without them: >currently inode hash table can store inodes with identical inode >numbers, provided they can be distinguished by find_actor. Inode numbers >are just first fast guess during table scan, if they coincide, >find_actor is used. >
Nikita is entirely correct, 32 bits of inode number hash is plenty.
64k blocks remain a solution whose potential drain on memory bandwidth worries me.
Hans
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