On Aug 23, 2002 10:57 +0200, Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald? wrote: > On Friday 23 August 2002 10:48, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2002 10:12 +0200, Carles Xavier Munyoz Bald? wrote: > > > Another issue, how may I know if one directory is or not indexed ? > > > And, how may I create and indexed directory ? > > > > Use lsattr <dir> with a newer e2fsprogs, and it will have a flag set, > > I believe it is "h" (hash) or "i" (index). > > Thakyou very much for the information. > Where may I found a newer e2fsprogs capable of detect the indexed directory > flag ? e2fsprogs.sf.net - version 1.28 is very recent and has support for this flag. I'm not sure whether the patch you have has a supported hash function though... This was in flux up to a week ago or so. > > I would suggest not using this on a production system and/or having > > backups of your data. This feature is still in the not-so-widely-used > > stage. > > Any idea about when will be a stable version of the htree indexed directory > patch for the ext3 filesystem ? Hopefully soon. I don't think there are any serious known problems right now, but there still needs to be some cleanup done (e.g. htree and e2fsck to live happily together). Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
