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SubjectRe: How git affects kernel.org performance
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

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