Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput

Stephen Tweedie
2001-11-06T22:23:28Z

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 07:28:02AM +1100, m@mo.optusnet.com.au wrote:

> Another heuristic to try make be to only use a different blockgroup
> for when the mkdir()s are seperate in time.

If I'm creating a hierarchy with "tar xvzf", why am I doing it? I
might be unpacking a source tree where all the files are going to be
used together. But I might be restoring a backup of /home. Assuming
that we want a compact unpacking is not always going to be correct.

Cheers,
Stephen