On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:30:20PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Erik Rossen wrote: > > As far as speed is concerned, you are right that an extra stat() would > > usually not improve matters. (Would it be an enormous penalty? I doubt > > it.) But users of file integrity checking systems like myself will be > > grateful for the change of behavior. > > You would be surprised how much performance can change when adding > extra stat calls. Many filesystems such as networked filesystems are > extremely latency bound and those kinds of changes have a strong > negative impact upon them.
OK. But I still wonder how expensive are the extra stat() calls that would be spent compared to the extra chown() calls that could be saved by checking first to see if a chown() was even necessary? -- Erik Rossen OpenPGP key: 2935D0B9 [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you do not know what http://people.linux-gull.ch/rossen to do, start with RTFM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
