Re: [PATCH] EXT3 extents against 2.6.0-test7

[Ed Sweetman]

Alex Tomas wrote:
> changes since last publication:
> 1) few bugs fixed: they caused extents tree corruption
> 2) several asserts added
> 3) binary search used to find an extent
> 4) last found entry is cached: this allows to skip tree
>    traversal and saves cpu a bit
> 5) truncate_sem is used to serialize get_block()/trucate()
>
>
> with best wishes, Alex


I've been using extents since the patch was introduced.  I haven't seen 
any corruption when using it with large files (ie. multimedia only).  In 
short, has there been any progress with getting fsck support? I'm 100% 
in support of this patch going into mainline kernel as a non-default 
option.  It's perfect for partitions that deal with large files, but 
still want ext3's fs corruption protection.  I average 10700 blocks an 
extent and see an extreme increase in performance over non-extents ext3 
doing operations on files of the same size.   I guess it's about time to 
update.

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