On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 09:52:49AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > That reminds me of a question I had with bigalloc - are htree > directories supported with bigalloc? For a 1MB bigalloc chunksize > it would mean a fanout of 256k, or a maximum directory size of 256GB > with only a single level. Yes, htree directories are supported with bigalloc; but it still works on *blocks*, whereas *clusters* are just used for allocation purposes. > > Any thoughts about increasing the directory size beyond 2GB? > I think the best way to do that is to support more than two levels of directories. I seem to recall your telling me that one of your team had prototyped something like this a while back? Or is my memory playing tricks on me? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
