Re: xfs_fsr allocation group optimization

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:39:13PM +0200, Johan Andersson wrote:

> In the way xfs_fsr operates now, in almost all user space, I don't
> see any good way to tell XFS where to place the extents, other than
> creating the temporary file in the same directory as the original
> file.

Exactly.

> My question is really, is there a better way than "find -xdev -inum"
> to find what file points to a given inode?

You can build then entire tree in-core using bulkstat and readdir,
doing the bulkstat first means you can try to optimize the order you
do the readdirs in somewhat.