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Re: [PATCH 1/2] fts: introduce the FTS_NOLEAF flag


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] fts: introduce the FTS_NOLEAF flag
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 17:33:54 +0000
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On 18/01/16 16:25, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/01/16 16:10, Kamil Dudka wrote:
>> On Monday 21 December 2015 15:01:56 Kamil Dudka wrote:
>>> On Monday 21 December 2015 00:05:51 Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>>> On the other hand we've had no reports of issues with the
>>>> existing auto config done by FTS.
>>>
>>> Because the leaf optimization has been enabled for reiserfs only until now.
>>> I suspect that NFS will not be that easy and such file system issues might
>>> be difficult to debug without the -noleaf option actually implemented.
>>
>> So we have the first bug report about the leaf optimization causing problems 
>> to users of find(1):
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1299169
>>
>> Is this a reason to implement the -noleaf option of find (and consequently
>> the FTS_NOLEAF flag of gnulib's FTS)?
> 
> Maybe. But I'm also thinking it might mean we
> can't enable this optimization for NFS
> as the implementations are too disparate in this regard?
> 
> It seems prudent for example to disable this
> optimization for the imminent coreutils 8.25 release :(

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