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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Tomas Hruby <thruby@few.vu.nl>,
	Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext2/3 subdirectory limit [WAS: Choosing and tuning Linux file systems]
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:35:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060626173556.GA19815@tuatara.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060626125435.GA3911@thunk.org>

On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:54:35AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:

> I've heard reports of programs that attempt to optimize recursive
> descents by counting the number of directories found so far and
> comparing it with st_nlinks.

Some versions of find do this.  Breaking these semantics I think would
be painful for some people.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-25 22:00 Choosing and tuning Linux file systems Valerie Henson
2006-06-25 22:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-25 22:26 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26  7:22 ` Neil Brown
2006-06-26  9:04 ` Nate Diller
2006-06-27 18:46   ` Valerie Henson
2006-06-26 11:10 ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-26 12:36   ` ext2/3 subdirectory limit [WAS: Choosing and tuning Linux file systems] Tomas Hruby
2006-06-26 12:35     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-26 12:54     ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-26 16:25       ` Andreas Dilger
2006-06-26 17:35       ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
2006-06-26 21:03         ` Tomas Hruby
2006-06-26 21:03           ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-06-26 21:13             ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-26 12:59     ` Erik Mouw
2006-06-26 21:09       ` Tomas Hruby
     [not found] ` <20060626091357.GQ5817@schatzie.adilger.int>
2006-06-26 22:01   ` Choosing and tuning Linux file systems Valerie Henson

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