Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:47:59 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/9] exofs: dir_inode and directory operations |
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On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:28:57 +0200 Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com> wrote:
> implementation of directory and inode operations. > > * A directory is treated as a file, and essentially contains a list > of <file name, inode #> pairs for files that are found in that > directory. The object IDs correspond to the files' inode numbers > and are allocated using a 64bit incrementing global counter. > * Each file's control block (AKA on-disk inode) is stored in its > object's attributes. This applies to both regular files and other > types (directories, device files, symlinks, etc.). > > ... > > fs/exofs/dir.c | 649 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
yes, this does look rather ext2-like ;)
How long ago was the code cloned from ext2? iirc there have been a number of fairly subtle bugs fixed in ext2/dir.c over the past year or three. If the code was not quite recently cloned then I'd suggest that you spend a bit of time looking through the ext2 changelogs, see if there are any bugfixes which needs to be ported.
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