On 2012-07-31, at 6:12, Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have 2 questions about dx in ext4: > > 1) hash conflict > > I walked through the ext4/namei.c, but didn't find any > code dealing with hash conflicts. > > I wonder if some name hash conflicts, how can they be stored > and retrieved with the dir ops? Sorry, don't have code available to look at to comment on this issue. > 2) limit on size of dir > > For the limit on items of the dir, the dir size is limited > to a height of 2 HTree: > root node > | > intermidate node ... > | | > leaf node... > > Is this right? Correct, though this is only an implementation limit and not a format limit. We have a patch to increase the htree depth to 3 levels and beyond 2GB directories, but it needs e2fsck support still, and it needs to be separated from a patch that also allows multi-threaded access to the same directory (though not via the VFS, unfortunately). You can find this patch in the Lustre Git repo at git.whamcloud.com/fs/lustre-release in the ldiskfs/patches directory, if you are interested in this. Cheers, Andreas-- 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
