[Gllug] Thoughts on the breadth of Free Software

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Tue Sep 19 21:46:40 UTC 2006


Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Directory b-tree hashing has been on by default in ext3 for quite a while 
> now 

Directrry hashing has _never_ been a default in ext3

> (it was in RHEL-4 / Fedora Core 2+  - ~2.6.9 kernel) & existing 
> filesystems can be toggled using a simple 'tune2fs -O dir_index'..
>   

So some Redhat installations enable directory hashing by default  (not 
essentially a bad thing, I agree).
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