[PATCH] [MTD-UTILS] mkfs.jffs2: Remove Incorrect Find Optimization

Josh Boyer jwboyer at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jun 18 09:06:09 EDT 2008


On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:46:29 -0700
Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com> wrote:

> Remove performance optimization in find_filesystem_entry that prevented 
> the successful simultaneous use of --root and --devtable where the 
> latter is only used to fix-up permissions and ownership and to create 
> device nodes.
> 
> As it stood, the performance optimization prevented a successful find 
> where directory recursion was required or where the file being searched 
> for had any mode permission bits set.
> 
> See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2008-June/021997.html
> for additional information.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Grant Erickson <gerickson at nuovations.com>

applied.

josh



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