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Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 00:02:45 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu> To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com> Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsck: no parent lookup in disconnected dir On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 23:35:30 -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Don't call into ext2fs_get_pathname() to do a name lookup for a > disconnected directory, since the directory block traversal in > pass1 has already scanned all of the leaf blocks and never finds > the entry, always printing "???". If the name entry had been > found earlier, the directory would not be disconnected in pass3. > > Instead, lookup ".." and print the parent name in the prompt, and > then do not search for the current directory name at all. This > avoids a useless full directory scan for each disconnected entry, > which can potentially be slow if the parent directory is large. > > [...] Applied, thanks! [1/1] e2fsck: no parent lookup in disconnected dir commit: 6b0e3bd7bd2f2db3c3993c5d91379ad55e60b51e Best regards, -- Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
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