Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:28:57 +0200 > Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> implementation of directory and inode operations. >> >> * A directory is treated as a file, and essentially contains a list >> of <file name, inode #> pairs for files that are found in that >> directory. The object IDs correspond to the files' inode numbers >> and are allocated using a 64bit incrementing global counter. >> * Each file's control block (AKA on-disk inode) is stored in its >> object's attributes. This applies to both regular files and other >> types (directories, device files, symlinks, etc.). >> >> ... >> >> fs/exofs/dir.c | 649 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > yes, this does look rather ext2-like ;) > > How long ago was the code cloned from ext2? iirc there have been a > number of fairly subtle bugs fixed in ext2/dir.c over the past year or > three. If the code was not quite recently cloned then I'd suggest that > you spend a bit of time looking through the ext2 changelogs, see if > there are any bugfixes which needs to be ported. > > Long! Like Linux-v2.6.10 ;) I will git-log the files in question and see if any of the bugs are relevant here. (They should be). Thanks that is most valuable input. Boaz -- 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
