linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

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

Message-ID: <20061213213242.GY5937@schatzie.adilger.int>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:32:42 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
To:	Valerie Clement <valerie.clement@...l.net>
Cc:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ext4-locality-groups patch

On Dec 13, 2006  16:02 +0100, Valerie Clement wrote:
> Alex Tomas wrote:
> >ah, it's simple. you're looking at superblock counters.
> >we don't update them every time. this was changed years
> >ago. try the same with regular ext3
>
> Yes, sorry, I didn't know that and I didn't notice that before.
> And the per-group counters are right.

It would be good, IMHO, to update the superblock counters periodically
anyways (e.g. statfs already has done the calculation).  Otherwise,
e2fsck on a mounted-but-idle system always complains about them being
incorrect.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

-
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