Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Reduce XFS footprint (was Re: TAKE - remove a
	function xfs added to filemap.c
From: Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>
To: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc: "linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Date: 29 Jan 2002 13:09:17 -0600
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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.

> 
> Thanks.
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