From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Zhang Huan <zhhuan@gmail.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question on readdir implementation
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:56:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocpcf5wv.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090915145337.GB23118@mit.edu> (Theodore Tso's message of "Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:53:37 -0400")
* Theodore Tso:
> So this is something we could do in the future. In practice, no one
> has complained about this as far as NFS is concerned, so it's not high
> priority for me to pursue. Were you worried about this as a practical
> matter, or as a theoretical one?
readdir returning entries in essentially randomized order is a
practical performance problem for many things, from grep -r to tar. 8-(
(My recent FIBMAP/FIEMAP question was related to that, too.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 9:57 Question on readdir implementation Zhang Huan
2009-09-15 14:41 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-09-15 14:53 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-15 17:56 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2009-09-15 18:38 ` Theodore Tso
2009-09-16 5:47 ` Zhang Huan
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