Re: [PATCH] Re: Reduce XFS footprint (was Re: TAKE - remove a function xfs added to filemap.c

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:50, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:40:01 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> >+dep_mbool    '  Enable XFSv1 directories' CONFIG_XFS_V1_DIR
> 
> Could you please elaborate on what exactly it means to enable/disable this 
> item? 
> (Other than possibly making XFS smaller.)


XFS has two directory formats, V1 directories were the original, V2 was
a new version written to fix problems with NFS and a few other apps.
Linux always uses V2, the V1 is there for Irix compatibility - but it
can get into loops or miss entries in readdir on linux.

Steve

p.s. Thanks for the patch Andi, we will discuss it internally.

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> Thanks.
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