Re: Ext4 slow on links

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

On 6/19/12 10:57 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On Jun 19, 2012, at 10:38 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ted, hi Eric,
>>
>> thanks for the answers, here some remarks.
>>
> ...
> 
>> On Di, 19 Jun 2012, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> As Ted said, the targets might be far-flung.  If you do /bin/ls -l instead
>>> of maybe an aliased ls which stats everything to make pretty colors,
>>> is that faster?
>>
>> Might be the problem, but I saw the same with a program doing
>> opendir readdir etc, so no allias or external program involved.
>>
> Of course ls -l must stat anyway.  I shouldn't compose emails so late.  :). 

Oh, but Zach Brown reminds me that if we stat the entries in getdents/hash
order, it's roughly random w.r.t. disk location.  Newer utils will sort into
inode order, I think(?)  Might be interesting to strace the ls -l and see
if it's doing it in inode order, or not.

-Eric