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From: "Alexander G. M. Smith" <agmsmith@rogers.com>
Subject: Re: what do you do that stresses your filesystem?
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:00:22 -0500 EST
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Russell Coker wrote on Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:21:52 +0100:
> Mail serving with Maildir storage.

Same sort of thing here.  Thousands of e-mail and news files in
a directory, so displaying them in a GUI directory display window
can be slow.  Particularly if it is also getting attributes to
display (from, to, subject, date, thread).  This is under BeOS/BFS
and can get a bit slow if the attributes end up in disk sectors
far away from the inode for the file (but speed is good when block
size (=3D=3D inode size) is boosted up enough so that the attributes
all fit in the inode).

So, directory reading speed plus attribute reading speed are
important to me.

- Alex