Re: linux-2.4.10-pre5

Rik van Riel
2001-09-10T22:39:33Z

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (Ugly secret: because I tend to have tons of memory, I sometimes do
>
> find tree1 tree2 -type f | xargs cat > /dev/null

This suggests we may want to do agressive readahead on the
inode blocks.

They are small enough to - mostly - cache and should reduce
the amount of disk seeks quite a bit. In an 8 MB block group
with one 128 byte inode every 8 kB, we have a total of 128 kB
of inodes...

regards,

Rik
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