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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:36:03 -0400
From:	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>
To:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
CC:	Phillip Susi <psusi@....rr.com>, 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 03/15/2011 10:33 AM, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 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.
>

Some file systems do this well. The thread here is more focused on dealing with 
issues for file systems that handle this poorly :)

Ric

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