Re: Add extended attributes to ext2/3

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 05:48:26 EST


On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:01, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Just as an FYI - marking ext3 inodes dirty is an expensive operation,
> and should be done only once if at all possible (not sure if the same
> code applies to ext3 as you are discussing ext2, but I thought I should
> mention it).

Yes its noticable that 2.4 makes ext3 inodes dirty unneccessarily in
some cases. Its one of the things Pete Zaitsev of mysql pointed out to
me.

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