cvs commit: src/sbin/fsck dir.c fsck.h inode.c main.c pass1.c pass2.c pass3.c pass4.c pass5.c utilities.c

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Mon Nov 8 10:50:23 GMT 2004


On 2004-11-08 08:21, Don Lewis <truckman at freebsd.org> wrote:
> truckman    2004-11-08 08:21:03 UTC
>
>   FreeBSD src repository
>
>   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
>     sbin/fsck            dir.c fsck.h inode.c main.c pass1.c
>                          pass2.c pass3.c pass4.c pass5.c
>                          utilities.c
>   Log:
>   MFC dir.c:1.30, fsck.h:1.33, fsutil.c:1.25, inode.c:1.37, main.c:1.42,
>       pass1.c:1.43, pass2.c:1.26, pass3.c:1.15, pass4.c:1.15, pass5.c:1.4
>       with minor changes to match RELENG_4 code.
>
>   >   Eliminate linked list used to track inodes with an initial link
>   >   count of zero and instead encode this information in the inode state.
>   >   Pass 4 performed a linear search of this list for each inode in
>   >   the file system, which performs poorly if the list is long.
>   >
>   >   Reviewed by:    sam & keramida (an earlier version of the patch), mckusick
>   >   MFC after:      1 month

Absolutely marvellous!

Thanks for doing all the work needed to bring this to 4.X.

My reference installation of 4.X at home has a 45 GB slice all in one huge /
partition, and I surely hope this will speed things fast for those times that
I manage to break things a lot :-)



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