Ben Rockwood wrote: > This is just a thought exercise.... but I'm curious what would exactly be > involved in essentially biasing caching such that a 'ls -al' was never slow. > > In my experience, IO speed an vary, but if a user types "ls -al" in the shell > and the response isn't nearly instantaneous they start calling IT staff. > Being able to cache all that data (perhaps by priming it) ensuring its not > bumped out later would be interesting. > > Does that include nameservice data? Doing an ls -l where the a files owned by many users can be really slow.
-- Ian.
