linux-ext4 - Re: Enabling h-trees too early?

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Message-ID: <20070920151440.GE30221@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:14:40 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Enabling h-trees too early?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:58:39PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hmm, strange - I've just looked at my computer and dir_index is set
> just for 5 directories in my tree.

I looked at a tree that had object files, which is probably why I had
8 directories; I'm guessing you probably just had kernel sources and
no build files.

> If I try deleting just them, I also
> see some performance decrease but it's less than if I try deleting the
> whole tree (and that result seems to be quite consistent)... There's something
> fishy there. Maybe I could try seekwatcher or something similar to see
> what's really happening.

That is very strange.....

						- Ted
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