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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6
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Florian Weimer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6 |
Date: |
Tue, 7 Oct 2003 10:22:55 +0200 |
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Momchil Velikov:
> > Ollivier> I'd be against (and I think Tom too) putting any kind of
> > Ollivier> FS-specific optimisations in Arch.
> >
> > Why ?
>
> Because portability is difficult enough without putting FS-specific kludges
> (which are less portable than OS specific ones) in the code.
The required changes can be neatly isolated. Portability headaches are
caused by different problems.
> > How is this relevant to ext2 ? Does such ordering hurt FFS ?
>
> Completely irrelevant to ext2 :) I don't think it is bad for FFS, I just
> say, it is the OS business, not Arch's.
It's quite hard to fix this while preserving kernel interfaces and not
penalizing some applications.
- [Gnu-arch-users] readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Miles Bader, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Miles Bader, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Ollivier Robert, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Momchil Velikov, 2003/10/06
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Ollivier Robert, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6,
Florian Weimer <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Andrew Suffield, 2003/10/07
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: readdir() optimization for ext3/Linux 2.6, Florian Weimer, 2003/10/06