Hello Daniel,
This combination against 2.4.4 won't allow directories to be moved.
Ex: mv a b #fails with I/O error.  See attached strace.
But with ext2-dir-patch-S4 by itself, mv works as it should.
Later,
Albert

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> > Patch is on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/ext2-dir-patch-S4.gz
> 
> Here is my ext2 directory index as a patch against your patch:
> 
>     http://kernelnewbies.org/~phillips/htree/dx.pcache-2.4.4
> 
> Changes:
> 
>     - COMBSORT macro replaced by custom sort code
>     - Most #ifdef CONFIG_EXT2_INDEX's changed to if (<constant>)
> 
> To do:
> 
>   - Split up the split code
>   - Finalize hash function
>   - Test/debug big endian
>   - Fall back to linear search if bad index detected
>   - Fail gracefully on random data
>   - Remove the tracing and test options
> 
> To apply:
> 
>     cd source/tree
>     zcat ext2-dir-patch-S4.gz | patch -p1
>     cat dx.pcache-2.4.4 | patch -p0
> 
> To create an indexed directory:
> 
>     mount /dev/hdxxx /test -o index
>     mkdir /test/foo
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