Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6

[Ollivier Robert]

According to Florian Weimer:
> We could call statfs() and check for the file system type, either for
> each directory or once for the project root.

I'd be against (and I think Tom too) putting any kind of FS-specific
optimisations in Arch. Checking the FS is not enough, under FreeBSD for
instance, we don't have hashed directories on-disk but with UFS_HASHDIR in
the kernel, an in-memory hash table is maintained.

This is clearly an OS-level thingy, not an application one.
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