Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0TLSHr27279 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:28:17 -0800 Received: from ADSL-Bergs.RZ.RWTH-Aachen.DE (adsl-bergs.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.80.218]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0TLSDd27249 for ; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:28:13 -0800 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=ralf) by ADSL-Bergs.RZ.RWTH-Aachen.DE with smtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 16VerN-0006ud-00; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:28:05 +0100 From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" To: "linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com" Cc: "Steve Lord" Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:28:04 +0100 Reply-To: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.20.2380) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195;2) In-Reply-To: <1012331357.24486.67.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Reduce XFS footprint (was Re: TAKE - remove a function xfs added to filemap.c Message-Id: Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 773 Lines: 21 On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:09:17 -0600, Steve Lord wrote: [...] >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. So with Andi's patch one should NOT enable V1 directories, or otherwise the XFS code can't read existing V2 filesystems anymore? Is that right? Thanks. -- Verkaufe Original-BMW-Raeder: L I N U X .~. http://adsl-bergs.rz.rwth-aachen.de/~rabe The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^