jffs2_get_inode_nodes() very very slow

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 11:26 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> This converts the small nodes to bigger nodes when the data are
> appended to log.big. I guess garbage collection should kick in quite
> fast and clean up the small nodes. It might not totally go away, but
> it should be much better than now. This will also give you more
> capacity on your partition as the small nodes consist mostly of node
> overhead. 

We could possibly do this for ourselves quite easily. When writing to a
page which already has more than N fragments, obsolete them all and
write the whole page out again.

Or maybe, when writing the _last_ byte in a page which already has N
fragments, rewrite the whole page?

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dwmw2