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SubjectRe: problems with large directories - not only ext2
Robert G. Brown wrote:
> (where seeks are much more expensive than sequential reads and
> where stating a few thousand files means MINIMALLY a few thousand seeks
> at 5-10 msec/each -- definitely macroscopic time). Note that this can
> easily take longer than the actual reading of the file(s).

Please note you don't _have_ to call stat() in the order returned by
readdir(). If you sort by inode number first, then on almost all
filesystems you'll get a speedup because that usually sorts the disk
accesses.

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-- Jamie

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