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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:28:53AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > The problem is that I have no sufficient FS knowledge to argument why
> > it helps here. It was a desperate attempt to fix the problem for us
> > and it definitely worked well.
> 
> XFS does rather efficient btree directories, and it does sophisticated
> readahead for directories.  I suspect that's what is helping you there.

Ok. Do you too think it might help (or even solve) the problem on
kernel.org ?

Willy