Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-15 Thread Daniel Phillips
>Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular > > > > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n > > > > temporary files is not hard to write. > > > > > > ls -U |

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-13 Thread Jamie Lokier
Daniel Phillips wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular > > > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n > > > temporary files is not hard to write. > > > > ls -U | sort > > > >

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-13 Thread Daniel Phillips
Jamie Lokier wrote: > Daniel Phillips wrote: > > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular > > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n > > temporary files is not hard to write. > > ls -U | sort > > should do the trick. Um, yep. Now ls s

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-11 Thread Jamie Lokier
Daniel Phillips wrote: > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n > temporary files is not hard to write. ls -U | sort should do the trick. -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 10 April 2001 18:37, you wrote: > Daniel Phillips writes: > > The zeroth block of an indexed directory is the index root. Initially > > the index has only one block. The following blocks are normal ext2 > > directory entry blocks. When the directory grows large enough to fill > > all

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-11 Thread Daniel Phillips
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Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-10 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Daniel Phillips writes: > The zeroth block of an indexed directory is the index root. Initially > the index has only one block. The following blocks are normal ext2 > directory entry blocks. When the directory grows large enough to fill > all the available entries in the root index block (arou

Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Daniel, you write: > For the past several weeks I have been developing a directory index > facility for Ext2, with good results so far. This note describes the > on-disk format of the new index. Finally starting to test your last release, and you make a new one... ;-) > Needless to say, the new

[RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure

2001-04-09 Thread Daniel Phillips
For the past several weeks I have been developing a directory index facility for Ext2, with good results so far. This note describes the on-disk format of the new index. The development work has reached the point where the format is nearly ready to be frozen, so I hope that the material I have p