From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:38:20 GMT
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
Message-ID: <45A0BF8C.4040508@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070107011542.3496bc76.akpm@osdl.org>

On 01/07/2007 10:15 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Yeah, slowly-growing directories will get splattered all over the
> disk.
> 
> Possible short-term fixes would be to just allocate up to (say) eight
>  blocks when we grow a directory by one block.  Or teach the 
> directory-growth code to use ext3 reservations.
> 
> Longer-term people are talking about things like on-disk
> rerservations. But I expect directories are being forgotten about in
> all of that.

I wish people would just talk about de2fsrag... ;-\

Rene