linux-ext4 - Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

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Date:	Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:38:20 +0100
From:	Rene Herman <rene.herman@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance

On 01/07/2007 10:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yeah, slowly-growing directories will get splattered all over the
> disk.
> 
> Possible short-term fixes would be to just allocate up to (say) eight
>  blocks when we grow a directory by one block.  Or teach the 
> directory-growth code to use ext3 reservations.
> 
> Longer-term people are talking about things like on-disk
> rerservations. But I expect directories are being forgotten about in
> all of that.

I wish people would just talk about de2fsrag... ;-\

Rene

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