linux-ext4 - Re: htree indexing and 64-bit file systems

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Message-ID: <20090203233108.GW14762@mit.edu>
Date:	Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:31:08 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Valerie Aurora Henson <vaurora@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Subject: Re: htree indexing and 64-bit file systems

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 05:22:02PM -0500, Valerie Aurora Henson wrote:
> I've just been ignoring htree indexing for now, but the regression
> failure in Ted's rebased 64bit tree looks suspiciously htree-related.
> 
> What's the interaction between htree and 64 bit file systems?  What
> needs to change, if anything?

There shouldn't be any.  The block numbers used in htree are logical
block numbers (i.e., block 0 is the first block in the directory,
block 1 is the 2nd block i the directory, etc.)

						- Ted
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