Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 15 Nov 1999 22:31:19 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Ext2 defragmentation |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > > No. There are other operations (such as du -s ., search from midnight) > > which have find-like access pattern. And you have no chance of getting > > out of date. > > I have a dirent->d_type patch which I really should get on with > submitting... Is anyone actually interested in it? It really speeds up > this sort of operation. I have tested it with treescan.
Correction. It speeds up find / sorts of operation, but not du -s, as the latter wants to read all the inodes. That's optimised by treescan anyway, but d_type doesn't really help.
-- Jamie
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