Hello, On 01/12/2010 05:21 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > On large directories sysfs_count_nlinks can be a significant > bottleneck, so keep a count in sysfs_dirent. I was about to suggest changing s_flags to ushort too. Hmmm... adding a new field to sysfs_dirent somewhat worries me but this doesn't add to the size of the structure. How significant bottlenect are we talking about? > If we exceed the maximum number of directory entries we can store > return nlink of 1. An nlink of 1 matches what reiserfs does in this > case, and it let's find and similar utlities know that we have a the > directory nlink can not be used for optimization purposes. Hmmm... what's the limit on reiserfs? Is it 64k too? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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
