Tim Kientzle <[email protected]> wrote: > To be honest, I've considered altering bsdtar's directory-traversal > code so that it always sorts the first 100 names in a directory > and then leaves the rest unsorted. That would give fully-sorted > output for almost all cases and avoid the memory consumption > (and slow performance) on very large directories.
100 directory entries looks a bit small. average values seem to be 5..50 entries per directory, 100 is a number that looks too close to values from every day. But in general: as directories usually don't have too many entries, it is not a problem to read a directory at once (and this is why star uses this method since 10 years). Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
