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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Akshat Aranya <aaranya@cs.sunysb.edu>,
	Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Expected getdents behaviour
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:57:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050915165746.GA12005@linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF8750384F.83368BFF-ON8825707D.005AFD85-8825707D.005CB38E@us.ibm.com>

On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 09:52:33AM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> Since others have opined differently, I'd like to add my voice to Ted's 
> and say his explanation is exactly my understanding too; I couldn't have 
> said it any better, right down to the part of cursing our reality.

Well the reality is there are applications out there that
create more than 1,000,000 files in a directory, and in
order to support that efficiently having a working
seekdir()/telldir() is a *MUST*.

Jeremy.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15 13:57 Expected getdents behaviour Akshat Aranya
2005-09-15 14:03 ` Peter Staubach
2005-09-15 14:07 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 14:12   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 14:45     ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-09-15 15:17       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 16:41         ` Jan Blunck
2005-09-15 17:46           ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-15 18:19             ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-15 21:04               ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-16  7:50                 ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-15 21:47               ` Jörn Engel
2005-09-16  7:29               ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-16 11:58                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-15 21:00             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 21:15               ` Charles P. Wright
2005-09-15 21:19                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 20:28           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 16:51         ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-09-15 21:17           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 15:51     ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-15 16:52       ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-15 16:57         ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2005-09-15 20:51           ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 20:50         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-15 23:41           ` Bryan Henderson
2005-09-15 20:25       ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-09-16  3:39         ` Theodore Ts'o
2005-09-16 11:57           ` Dave Kleikamp
2005-09-15 18:08     ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-16 11:23       ` Miklos Szeredi
2005-09-16  1:28   ` tridge

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