Duplication of dirent names in JFFS2 summary

Artem B. Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri May 19 08:05:13 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 15:57 +0400, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> About reading names during scanning.
> 
> The only reason why we read direntry names during scanning is to find
> out which directory entries were deleted. There is no other reason to
> read names.
> 
> Let's think if we may avoid reading direntry names at all. Yes, it is
> possible I think - we just have to postpone this for later. But I don't
> see a simple way do do this. Ideas?
> 
I mean, we don't have to know the right inode refcount values at the
scanning time, may we calculate it at the readinode() time?

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Best Regards,
Artem B. Bityutskiy,
St.-Petersburg, Russia.





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