On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:11:51PM +0200, Ragnar Kj?rstad wrote: > It does, so why isn't there a way to do this without the disgusting > hack? (Your words, not mine :) )
inode sorting probably a good guess for a number of filesystems, you can map the blocks used to do better still (somewhat fs specific) you can do better still if you multiple stats in parallel (up to a point) and let the elevator sort things out > I bet it would make a significant difference from things like "ls -l" in > large uncached directories and imap-servers with maildir? sort + concurrent stats would help here i think i'm not sure i like the idea of ls using lots of threads though :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/