linux-ext4 - Re: Large directories and poor order correlation

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Message-ID: <20110315143300.GC1699@bitwizard.nl>
Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:33:00 +0100
From:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
To:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>
Cc:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Large directories and poor order correlation

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:01:24AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> To try and clarify this point a bit, are you saying that applications
> like tar and rsync should be patched to sort the directory by inode
> number, rather than it being the job of the fs to return entries in a
> good order?

IMHO, it is the job of the FS to perform well in common cases.

	Roger. 


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