linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/3] mke2fs: enable large directroy support

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Date:   Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:11:28 -0700
From:   Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:     Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Cc:     Artem Blagodarenko <artem.blagodarenko@...gate.com>,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mke2fs: enable large directroy support

We have kernel-side patches for this feature. Artem, could you push a version of the ext4 patches for the latest kernel to the list?

Cheers, Andreas

> On Jan 25, 2017, at 13:31, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 07:34:13PM +0300, Artem Blagodarenko wrote:
>> The INCOMPAT_LARGEDIR feature allows larger directories to
>> be created, both with directory sizes over 2GB and and a
>> maximum htree depth of 3 instead of the current limit of 2.
>> These features are needed in order to exceed the currently
>> limit of approximately 10M entries in a single directory.
>> 
>> debugfs, e2fsck, ext2fs, mke2fs and tune2fs support is
>> added.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Lyashkov <alexey.lyashkov@...gate.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Artem Blagodarenko <artem.blagodarenko@...gate.com>
> 
> Where are the kernel-side changes for this feature?
> 
> And could you *please* use git send-email's --chain-reply-to option,
> or set the sendemail.chainReplyTo in your git config.  (Or if you're
> not using git send-email, send the e-mail using that format).
> 
> It makes it much easier to figure out which patch goes with which
> other patch in a patch series, especially when you start sending
> revised versions of the patches.
> 
>                    - Ted
>