Re: Calling stat with millions of files

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Chris Mason wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 12:47, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>really afford to do it just for you, sorry.
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>>>You'll get better results with the new block allocator in 2.6.7-rcX-mm,
>>>but in the end the stat information for the file isn't horribly close to
>>>the directory entries, and performance won't be perfect.
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>>>Hans, I thought reiser4 was going to be good at this kind of thing?
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>>what in reiser4 optimizes accesses to hard links to files whose stat 
>>data is stored in other directories?  Maybe the stat data being stored 
>>near other stat data instead of near file bodies will help,.  Hmmm.  
>>Could be, have to try it to see.
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>He said above that it creates hard links "when it can", not sure what
>percentage of the time this actually happens.
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>-chris
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Probably reiser4 will indeed do much better at this.  Wish I had more 
guys working on the debugging.....;-)