linux-ext4 - Enabling h-trees too early?

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:07:15 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Enabling h-trees too early?

  Hi,

  I was just wondering: Currently we start to build h-tree in a directory
already when the size of directory exceeds one block. But honestly, it does
not seem to make much sence to use this feature until the directory is much
larger (I'd say at least 16 or 32 KB). It actually slows down some
operations like deleting the whole directory, etc. So what is the reason
for starting building the tree so early? Just the simplicity of building it
when the directory is just one block large?

									Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html