#include <hallo.h> Karsten M. Self wrote on Sun Nov 11, 2001 um 03:49:33AM:
> > the list and searched for that entry. Ext3 stores the position the > > last found entry, so when accessing again, the search begins an this > > position and you get your entry wery fast, in best case within the > > first search loop. > > My understanding is that the difference between ext2 and ext3 is the > presence and use of the .journal file. The issue of list access Basicaly yes, but they did also tune the driver a bit. > remains, and in particular, random file selects, inserts, and deletes, > must operate on the list. Of course, the random access does not profit from the trick, but list operations on large directories where ext2 sucked so much. > I'd be more convinced of your argument if you'd provide a reference to > ext3 docs describing the behavior you mention. Well, it was discussed even on debian-devel. file:///usr/doc/kernel-patch-ext3-2.4/changelog.gz (see 0.9.10) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg01303.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200108/msg01238.html Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- <Joey> Ok, da steckt auch nicht mehr Arbeit fuer mich hinter? Dann bin ich's doch. -- #debian.de
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