From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: Expected getdents behaviour Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:57:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20050915165746.GA12005@linux> References: <20050915155108.GE22503@thunk.org> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Theodore Ts'o , Akshat Aranya , Anton Altaparmakov , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:53461 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030540AbVIOQ7L (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:59:11 -0400 To: Bryan Henderson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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.