Re: [PATCH v7 1/2] proto: add ability to populate a filesystem from a directory

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On the way back from meetings and long distance travel,
so just chiming in with a few points.

One is that the patch split still doesn't make sense to me.  Patch 1 adds
all the infrastructure which remains unused, and then patch 2 trivially
wires it up.  Please merge the two.

> > Urk, linear search.  Oh well, I guess we can switch to a hashtable if
> > we get complaints about issues.
> 
> Yea, if it's a problem I can implement an hashtable, from my local
> testing using larger source directories (1.3mln inodes, ~400k hardlinks)
> the difference was actually just a few seconds (given that most of the
> time is doing i/o)

Please add this to the commit log, it's always good to know about the
trade offs and the data supporting it when later looking at the commit
history.





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