From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39714 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756797AbaISQX6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:23:58 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XV0yN-0003fL-O2 for linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:23:51 +0200 Received: from pd953ea7c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.83.234.124]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:23:51 +0200 Received: from holger.hoffstaette by pd953ea7c.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:23:51 +0200 To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org From: Holger =?iso-8859-1?q?Hoffst=E4tte?= Subject: Re: Performance Issues Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 16:23:37 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <1411129114.1811.7.camel@zarniwoop.blob> <541C434F.4060500@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-btrfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:53:03 -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote: > I find that kind of funny, because regardless of filesystem, stat() is > one of the *slowest* syscalls on almost every *nix system in existence. Sure. I didn't mean to imply that stat() in its various incarnations is fast by itself, just that git relies a lot on it since it necessarily needs to look at every file. -h