On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:28:53AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The problem is that I have no sufficient FS knowledge to argument why > > it helps here. It was a desperate attempt to fix the problem for us > > and it definitely worked well. > > XFS does rather efficient btree directories, and it does sophisticated > readahead for directories. I suspect that's what is helping you there. Ok. Do you too think it might help (or even solve) the problem on kernel.org ? Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html