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[Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6 |
Date: |
06 Oct 2003 17:31:18 +0900 |
Florian Weimer <address@hidden> writes:
> I've just finished a patch for Maildir support in mutt CVS that sorts
> the directory entries by inode before opening them. Without this
> optimization, you incur a tremendous seek overhead because due to the
> new directory hashing, readdir() returns the entries in random order.
Isn't this filesystem-specific? How on earth do you tell what sorting
order is best for a given directory?!?
-Miles
--
I'd rather be consing.
- [Gnu-arch-users] readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6,
Miles Bader <=
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Miles Bader, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Ollivier Robert, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Momchil Velikov, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Ollivier Robert, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06