On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:42:55AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > >I can't speak for everyone, but "ls" is the #1 consumer as far as I am > >concerned. > > So a syscall for ls alone? I guess the code needs to be checked, but I would think that: * ls * find * rm -r * chown -R * chmod -R * rsync * various backup software * imap servers are all likely users of readdirplus. Of course the ones that spend the majority of the time doing stat are the ones that would benefit more. -- Ragnar Kjørstad Software Engineer Scali - http://www.scali.com Scaling the Linux Datacenter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html