linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 18/24] e2fsck: collapse holes in extent-based directories

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Message-ID: <20140725123324.GI1865@thunk.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:33:24 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/24] e2fsck: collapse holes in extent-based directories

On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:54:30PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If we notice a hole in the block map of an extent-based directory,
> offer to collapse the hole by decreasing the logical block # of the
> extent.  This saves us from pass 3's inefficient strategy, which fills
> the holes by mapping in a lot of empty directory blocks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted
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