Re: [PATCH 05/35] e2fsck: track directories to be rehashed with a bitmap

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On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 09:43:45PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 10:26:45PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:34:33PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> > > Use a bitmap to track which directories we want to rehash, since
> > > bitmaps will use less memory.  This enables us to clean up the
> > > rehash-all case to use inode_dir_map, and we can free the dirinfo
> > > memory sooner.
> > 
> > Using inode_dir_map for the rehash-all case is a good idea, but I'm
> > not sure it follows that we should ues a bitmap for the non-rehash-all
> > case.
> 
> Eh, you're right, let's drop this one.  Honestly it's been so long I don't
> remember my motivation for writing this up in the first place.  Thanks for
> pulling in the e2fsck readahead pieces, though!

I think there still is value in using inode_dir_map to iterate over
all of the directories, so we can free the dirinfo memory sooner, but
the value is not as great, I agree.

					- Ted
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