Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:45:13 -0600 | Subject | Re: 3x slower file reading oddity |
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On Jun 17, 2002 17:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > You can probably lessen the seek-rate by accessing the files in the correct > order. Read all the files from a directory before descending into any of > its subdirectories. Can find(1) do that? You should be able to pretty > much achieve disk bandwidth this way - it depends on how bad the inter- > and intra-file fragmentation has become.
Just FYI - "find -depth" will do that, from find(1): -depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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