Re: [PATCH] [2.4.24-pre3] 0/5 EXT2/3 Updates

[Theodore Ts'o]

On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:07:47AM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 04:50:20PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Patch 5:  Add HTREE indexed directory support
> 
> Will this work on an NFS server? I remember an issue regarding a cookie
> representing the directory offset: The problem was that the conversion
> to HTREE of a directory while at the same time reading that directory
> over NFS would basically invalidate the directory offset.

Yes, it will work over an NFS server.  We solve this problem by having
readdir() always return directory entries of small directories (which
are eligible to be converted into HTREE format) in hash order.

						- Ted
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