Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Jun 2005 12:21:40 +0100 | From | P@draigBra ... | Subject | optimal file order for reading from disk |
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I know this will be dependent on filesystem, I/O scheduler, ... but given a list of files, what is the best (filesystem agnostic) order to read from disk (to minimise seeks).
Should I sort by path, inode number, getdents, or something else?
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