ext4 and extremely slow filesystem traversal

Vincent Caron vcaron at bearstech.com
Sun Mar 24 22:40:56 UTC 2013


On 15/03/2013 08:14, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> That's exactly what e2scan does. I'm pretty sure that is in upstream e2fsprogs now (not just our Lustre version), but I'm on a plane and cannot check.
> 
> It will scan the inode table directly and can generate the pathnames of files efficiently. It can filter on timestamps. 

  I did not find it in  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git

  There are some references from Lustre doc [1] and I could find some
github repo with some code [2]. Would you know where the e2scan upstream
lives ?


  [1]
http://wiki.lustre.org/manual/LustreManual20_HTML/SystemConfigurationUtilities_HTML.html#50438219_55923
  [2] https://github.com/morrone/e2fsprogs




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