On Mar 20, 2006 13:19 -0500, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 01:43 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > We don't modify the htree code at all in either 2.6.9-RHEL or 2.6.12, only > > 2.6.5 SLES9 has a small patch for "." and ".." lookup. > > Actually, RHEL-4 (based off 2.6.9) has needed one htree-related fix: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=acfa1823d33859b0db77701726c9ca5ccc6e6f25 > > which affects NFS lookup-parent only, so Lustre probably wouldn't need > it. That's why we don't need to patch 2.6.9-RHEL4 :-). > That was the last one I'm aware of; it has been robust other than that, > and the RHEL and Fedora installers have been doing tune2fs -O dir_index > to all filesystems by default since RHEL-4 / FC-2 (ie. for over 18 > months,) so it's definitely well tested here. So, would you also be in favour of making these two options the default for the next e2fsprogs? Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
