On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 02:27:02PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Allow a goal inode to be specified when allocating new inodes.
> If the goal is within the range of valid inodes use this in
> preference to one of the other target inode heuristics (Orlov or
> parent directory).
>
> The goal inode can be specified via /sys/fs/{dev}/inode_goal for
> testing inode allocation beyond 2^32 blocks on very large filesystems,
> and in the future will be used for large xattr inode allocation.
This patch didn't quite apply against the mainline ext4, and in
addition it conflicted with a patch to keep the choice of Orlov topdir
inode numbers stable for the purposes of benchmarking. So instead I
dropped the following two patches into the ext4 patch queue.
- Ted
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