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On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:06 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> Have you considered time overhead of moving files in unnatural order? |
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Rather than re-discuss this point it would probably be better for |
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everybody to just read through the entire thread again, particularly |
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Cirian's post and its follow-ups. My understanding is that the patch |
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has already been reverted. |
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Now, if somebody has a suggestion for how to sort the files in such a |
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way as to improve the performance (assuming that it doesn't already |
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happen in inode order) that would certainly take things forward. |
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Sorting lists in RAM is cheap, disk seeks are expensive. |
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Of course, if you're using tmpfs it is either all in RAM or in swap in |
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the first place, and I'm not sure if swap brings in additional |
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considerations here. |
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Rich |