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[XFS] Ondisk format extension for extended attributes (attr2). Basica…
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the data/attr forks now grow up/down from either end of the literal area,
rather than dividing the literal area into two chunks and growing both
upward.  Means we can now make much more efficient use of the attribute
space, incl. fitting DMF attributes inline in 256 byte inodes, and large
jumps in dbench3 performance numbers.  It is self enabling, but can be
forced on/off via the attr2/noattr2 mount options.

SGI-PV: 941645
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux:xfs-kern:23837a

Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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Nathan Scott committed Nov 1, 2005
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Expand Up @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ typedef struct xfs_mount {
user */
#define XFS_MOUNT_NOALIGN 0x00000080 /* turn off stripe alignment
allocations */
/* 0x00000100 -- currently unused */
#define XFS_MOUNT_COMPAT_ATTR 0x00000100 /* do not use attr2 format */
/* 0x00000200 -- currently unused */
#define XFS_MOUNT_NORECOVERY 0x00000400 /* no recovery - dirty fs */
#define XFS_MOUNT_SHARED 0x00000800 /* shared mount */
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