1. 12 Mar, 2009 1 commit
    • Theodore Ts'o's avatar
      ext4: New inode/block allocation algorithms for flex_bg filesystems · a4912123
      Theodore Ts'o authored
      The find_group_flex() inode allocator is now only used if the
      filesystem is mounted using the "oldalloc" mount option.  It is
      replaced with the original Orlov allocator that has been updated for
      flex_bg filesystems (it should behave the same way if flex_bg is
      disabled).  The inode allocator now functions by taking into account
      each flex_bg group, instead of each block group, when deciding whether
      or not it's time to allocate a new directory into a fresh flex_bg.
      
      The block allocator has also been changed so that the first block
      group in each flex_bg is preferred for use for storing directory
      blocks.  This keeps directory blocks close together, which is good for
      speeding up e2fsck since large directories are more likely to look
      like this:
      
      debugfs:  stat /home/tytso/Maildir/cur
      Inode: 1844562   Type: directory    Mode:  0700   Flags: 0x81000
      Generation: 1132745781    Version: 0x00000000:0000ad71
      User: 15806   Group: 15806   Size: 1060864
      File ACL: 0    Directory ACL: 0
      Links: 2   Blockcount: 2072
      Fragment:  Address: 0    Number: 0    Size: 0
       ctime: 0x499c0ff4:164961f4 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
       atime: 0x499c0ff4:00000000 -- Wed Feb 18 08:41:08 2009
       mtime: 0x49957f51:00000000 -- Fri Feb 13 09:10:25 2009
      crtime: 0x499c0f57:00d51440 -- Wed Feb 18 08:38:31 2009
      Size of extra inode fields: 28
      BLOCKS:
      (0):7348651, (1-258):7348654-7348911
      TOTAL: 259
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
      a4912123
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