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Theodore Tso  
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 More options 15 Aug 2006, 16:10
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From: Theodore Tso <ty...@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:10:14 +0200
Local: Tues 15 Aug 2006 16:10
Subject: Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Did they fix that? When I first looked into dir_index it was said that
> it would corrupt the directories since it would search the old linear
> dirs via hash and insert new entries by hash into linear dirs.

Who said that?  I was the one who merged the dir_index feature into
Linux 2.5/2.6, and that was never the case; it was always safe to
enable dir_index on the fly, by desgin.

                                                - Ted

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