From: Joel Becker Date: Thu Sep 20 17:13:51 2007 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 15/15] ocfs2: Write support for directories with inline data In-Reply-To: <200709192012.l8JKCHnX012247@agmgw2.us.oracle.com> References: <200709192012.l8JKCHnX012247@agmgw2.us.oracle.com> Message-ID: <20070921001315.GG3490@tasint.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:33:54PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Create all new directories with OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL and the inline data > bytes formatted as an empty directory. Inode size field reflects the actual > amount of inline data available, which makes searching for dirent space > very similar to the regular directory search. > > Inline-data directories are automatically pushed out to extents on any > insert request which is too large for the available space. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh Signed-off-by: Joel Becker -- "Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection." - Red Smith Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127