Re: [PATCH v2] d_ino considered harmful

[David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>]

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 14:04 -0400, J. R. Okajima wrote:
> David Dillow:
> > For example, our main Lustre scratch space has over 285 million files in
> > it, and using find -inum takes over 72 hours to walk the tree using
> 	:::
> > Using ne2scan -- which uses libext2fs and combines the inode scan and
> > the name lookup -- takes over 48 hours to generate a list of candidate
> > files for the purge example. With an optimized inode scan and the custom
> 	:::
> 
> While I've never heard of ne2scan, I am interested in this simplified
> problem such as "find the pathname(s) from an inum in a huge fs."
> Is ne2scan essentially equivalent to "debugfs ncheck inum"?

Yes, except it does that for every live inode in the system. ne2scan is
extended for use on Lustre's backing store -- it parses the LOV object
map and displays the information -- so I'm not sure how usable it will
be on an plain ext{2,3,4} file system. It is based off of e2scan in the
Oracle (nee Sun) Lustre version of e2fsprogs, so that could be a
starting point for you.

-- 
Dave Dillow
National Center for Computational Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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