On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:58 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:48:56AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > Not sure; the big boost really comes from reordering the files on the > > filesystem - running readahead (which takes 11 seconds) only gives me a > > I'm looking into this. a mix of creating a new directory, copying > the file there, then unlinking, linking and unlinking the new copies to the > old name is more likely to help. Eek. So what happens if I install an RPM while this is happening, or prelink runs, or...? I think the caching should clearly go in the kernel; anything else is going to have serious race conditions in some form.
