Re: updatedb for very large filesystems
- To: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
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- Subject: Re: updatedb for very large filesystems
- From: "James Youngman" <jay@gnu.org>
- Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 13:56:37 +0000
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 10/10/08 07:28, James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
>> wrote:
>>> how do you actually optimize disk head movement?
>>
>> Essentially by modifying fts() to pay attention to struct dirent.d_ino
>> and hoping that the inode number either has some relation to the disk
>> location, or that the difference between the average and worst case of
>> stat ordering is small. For details, see the archives of recent
>> discussions on the bug-gnulib@gnu.org mailing list.
>
> This thread?
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-gnulib@gnu.org/msg11327.html
That's the one.
James.
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