Re: [PATCH] minix: fix add link - wrong position calculation

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 02:26:41AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > commit 4a66af9eaa9531372cfcb9e20103ed147c729ff9
> > Author:     Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Tue Oct 16 01:25:21 2007 -0700
> > Commit:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Tue Oct 16 09:42:57 2007 -0700
> > 
> >     minixfs: convert to new aops
> > 
> > Is minixfs getting THAT little use, or is this bustage more subtle
> > than it appears?
> 
> Not getting used, I'd suspect (although I definitely have used it -- I
> converted it to large block size for testing fsblock, probably I didn't
> test softlinks).

Much simpler: there's one index for which the expressions are equivalent ;-)
Count how many entries does it take on minixfs to get to 4Kb.  Now think
how many had used that sucker on directories with >= 128 entries...

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