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.
next prev parent 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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