Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ext2fs "performace" | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 96 11:13:24 PDT | From | Craig Milo Rogers <> |
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>A 1 GB file on a 1k block ext2 filesystem will have 4096 indirect >blocks and a few dindirect blocks. Deleting the file will involve >essentially doing a random-access seek and read of each of these >blocks, so if it takes 100 seconds you are getting over 40 seeks/reads >per second.
I notice you said "random-access" seeks. Do you think it would be worthwhile to sort the inode and/or dindirect entries to make the seeks more sequential in nature?
Craig Milo Rogers
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