The patch is at:
http://nl.linux.org/~phillips/htree/dx.pcache-2.4.4-4
This is lightly tested and apparently stable. I wish I could say the
same for kernel 2.4.4 - cache performance sucks horribly.
(Nontechnical evaluation.) So it is probably not a good idea to take
benchmarks too seriously this month. The previous stable kernels,
2.4.2 and 2.4.3, had their problems too, fixable via patching. Maybe
next month...
This patch requires Al Viro's directory-in-page-cache patch to be
applied first, available from:
ftp://ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/ext2-dir-patch-S4.gz
The other flavor of indexing patch, dx.testme..., also does
directory-in-page-cache, using the good old ext2 directory code. This
works fine and is stable, but IMHO Al's patches constitute a pretty
major cleanup.
To apply:
cd source/tree
zcat ext2-dir-patch-S4.gz | patch -p1
cat dx.pcache-2.4.4-4 | patch -p0
To create an indexed directory:
mount /dev/hdxxx /test -o index
mkdir /test/foo
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