On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:35:30PM -0500, Josef Sipek wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 12:44:27PM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > > Maybe we should be using EAs for this sort of thing instead of flags > > on the inode? If we keep adding inode flags for generic features > > then we are going to force more than just XFS into inode format > > changes eventually.... > > Aren't EAs slow? Maybe not on XFS but on other filesystems... Only when they don't fit in the inode itself and extra disk seeks are needed to retrieve them. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
