Hi,
> >I have no objection to this at all, but I think it will lead to a slightly
> >more complex implementation. We even discussed in the distant past to
> >make large directories a series of 4kB "chunks", for fs blocksize >= 4kB.
> >This has negative implications for large filenames because the internal
> >free space fragmentation is high, but has the advantage that it might
> >eventually still be usable if we can get blocksize > PAGE_SIZE.
> >
> >The difficulty is that when freeing dir entires you would have to be
> >concerned with a merging a dir_entry that is spanning the middle
> >of a 2^16 block.
>
> That is easy, just don't let an entry span subblocks by not letting
> delete merge past the end of a subblock, just a minor tweak. New block
> initialization needs an outer loop on subblocks and that's it, I think.
I've been working on a patch implementing this feature. It currently works w/o
htree.
With dir_index, the difficulty is that an entry can span subblocks after a leaf
block split.
Cheers,
Johann
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