Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Ext2 directory index: ALS paper and benchmarks | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:32:57 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > Continuing the little warts list, there's Alan's comment re needing endian > > reversal on big endian machines. > > Now that's a load of bollocks.
Inodes are in native format with lots of unpacked additional info so we can't just point into the inode. We can certainly do things like writeback all the inodes in a block when the block has to go for queueing to disk.
Indirect blocks are a totally unrelated item to the discussion I was having at least.
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