Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 5 Nov 2001 16:03:41 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput |
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > A five-time slowdown on real work _is_ pure hell. You've not shown a > credible argument that the slow-growth behaviour would ever result in a > five-time slowdown for _anything_.
There might also be heuristics that explicitly _notice_ slow growth, not necessarily as a function of time, but as a function of the tree structure itself.
For example, spreading out (and the inherent assumption of "slow growth") might make sense for the root directory, and possibly for a level below that. It almost certainly does _not_ make sense for a directory created four levels down.
Linus
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