On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 11:07:27AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > And how often do the scripts which are in everyday use require such a > command? And the same for the other programs. I know that the rsync load is a major factor on kernel.org right now. With all the git trees (particularly the ones that people haven't packed recently), there's a lot of files in a lot of directories. If readdirplus would help this situation, it would definitely have a real world benefit. Obviously, I haven't done any measurements or attempted to quantify what the improvement would be. For those not familiar with a git repo, it has an 'objects' directory with 256 directories named 00 to ff. Each of those directories can contain many files (with names like '8cd5bbfb4763322837cd1f7c621f02ebe22fef') Once a file is written, it is never modified, so all rsync needs to do is be able to compare the timestamps and sizes and notice they haven't changed. - 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
