On 2011-04-05 12:34, Jim Rees wrote: > Benny Halevy wrote: > > At any rate, the broader issue is that the posix system call API assumes a > local file system and is not network not cluster file-system aware. > > It would be interesting to see someone who is affected by this implement the > readdirplus system call, modify ls to use it, and report the results. I > suspect the system call won't go anywhere in linux without some evidence > that it solves a real problem for real users. How hard would it be to implement a micro-benchmark with pynfs to compare performance of readdir + stats vs. readdirplus as a first cut estimate of the benefits? Benny -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
