Re: [PATCH v2] f2fs: Introduce linear search for dentries
From: Jaegeuk Kim
Date: Mon Jan 06 2025 - 16:18:35 EST
On 01/03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2024 at 04:57:35PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > > That means you have really bad worst case behavior for negative lookups.
> > > I don' think this is in any way a good idea.
> >
> > No surprise. Please check:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z1mzu4Eg6CPURra3@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Well, I think Linus finally gave in to revert the offending commit
> after the usual case insensitivity rants?
In any ways, we need a way to give the files back for customers, which is only
doable by the linear search, whether it sucks or not. :(