On 07/14/2017 03:50 AM, Carlos Maiolino wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 04:25:25PM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been doing some digging on adding parent pointers to xfs and wanted to >> send a note to folks here to get peoples opinions on it. > > Are you talking about parent pointers in the BTrees? > No, see [RFC 00/17] RFC parent inode pointers. for example, from long ago. "Parent inode support allow XFS to quickly derive a file name and path from the mount point. This can aid in directory/path policies and can help relocate items during filesystem shrink." It has a long and ... difficult history. -Eric >> I got in touch >> with Brian Foster not too long ago and he had some code partially done from >> about a year or so ago (looks like it has patches from Dave Chinner and Mark >> Tinguely as well). So I am hoping to be able to use what we have so far to >> create something updated and finished out. I am still pretty new to the xfs >> code, so at the moment I am still just going through old discussion threads, >> and reviewing the patches. But for the most part I just wanted to see what >> people thought and get everyone on board with the idea. Suggestions and >> feedback are much appreciated. Thank you!! >> > > It will be better if you can describe in more details if you have any specific > goal with this, and/or what kind of improvement you expect to have with it, > adding something new without a reason, is usually not well received. > > Cheers > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
