From: Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@gmail.com>
To: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
Cc: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
"linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large directories and poor order correlation
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:36:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D7F7953.9080705@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315143300.GC1699@bitwizard.nl>
On 03/15/2011 10:33 AM, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> To try and clarify this point a bit, are you saying that applications
>> like tar and rsync should be patched to sort the directory by inode
>> number, rather than it being the job of the fs to return entries in a
>> good order?
> IMHO, it is the job of the FS to perform well in common cases.
>
> Roger.
>
Some file systems do this well. The thread here is more focused on dealing with
issues for file systems that handle this poorly :)
Ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-15 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-14 20:24 Large directories and poor order correlation Phillip Susi
2011-03-14 20:37 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-03-14 20:52 ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-14 21:12 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-03-14 21:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-14 23:43 ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-15 0:14 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-15 14:01 ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-15 14:33 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-03-15 14:36 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2011-03-15 17:08 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-15 19:08 ` Phillip Susi
2011-03-16 1:50 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-03-15 7:59 ` Florian Weimer
2011-03-15 11:06 ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-15 11:23 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-03-15 11:38 ` Theodore Tso
2011-03-15 13:33 ` Rogier Wolff
2011-03-15 17:18 ` Ted Ts'o
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