From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:38:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsck-objects: support platforms without d_ino in struct dirent.
Message-ID: <20060120033803.GF5090@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vu0bz7lbk.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:13:51PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>The d_ino field is only used for performance reasons in
>fsck-objects.  On a typical filesystem, i-number tends to have a
>strong correlation with where the actual bits sit on the disk
>platter, and we sort the entries to allow us scan things that
>ought to be close together together.
>
>If the platform lacks support for it, it is not a big deal.
>Just do not use d_ino for sorting, and scan them unsorted.

Ah, interesting.  I don't know if the file id objects would have
that sort of correlation on NT but obviously the file hashes don't.

cgf