Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Some issues

[Florian Weimer]

* Andrew Suffield:

> Right, ext[23] cluster based on creation order, which works out pretty
> well for tla.

It doesn't on recent ext3 because ext3 reads the files in directory
order which is completely random thanks to hashing.

>> You can compensate for part of this problem if you sort directory
>> entries by inode number before accessing them, but it's still much
>> worse than just reading a file sequentially.
>
> This is false, and it's also irrelevant,

No, it's not.  Have a look at that mutt patch that sorts Maildir
access by inode number.  It's a huge win.

> since your proposal was to read a file randomly.

Oh, was it?  I don't think so.

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