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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues |
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Wed, 09 Jun 2004 20:50:46 +0200 |
* Andrew Suffield:
> Right, ext[23] cluster based on creation order, which works out pretty
> well for tla.
It doesn't on recent ext3 because ext3 reads the files in directory
order which is completely random thanks to hashing.
>> You can compensate for part of this problem if you sort directory
>> entries by inode number before accessing them, but it's still much
>> worse than just reading a file sequentially.
>
> This is false, and it's also irrelevant,
No, it's not. Have a look at that mutt patch that sorts Maildir
access by inode number. It's a huge win.
> since your proposal was to read a file randomly.
Oh, was it? I don't think so.
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues,
Florian Weimer <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Matthieu Moy, 2004/06/09
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Andrew Suffield, 2004/06/09
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Ollivier Robert, 2004/06/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Florian Weimer, 2004/06/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, Dustin Sallings, 2004/06/22
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues, James Blackwell, 2004/06/09