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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!bham!bhamcs!news.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!mbeattie From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Date: 19 Mar 1996 13:53:31 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 18 Distribution: comp Message-ID: <4ime8r$iq8@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <4gejrb$ogj@floyd.sw.oz.au> <DnoqB4.2sy@pe1chl.ampr.org> <4i1ker$4or@josie.abo.fi> <4id98m$3t@mk.zebra.fh-weingarten.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:19632 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15646 In article <4id98m$3t@mk.zebra.fh-weingarten.de>, Markus Kaufmann <kaufmann@zebra.fh-weingarten.de> wrote: >Mats Andtbacka (mandtbac@news.abo.fi) wrote: > >: - a *really, really fast* filesystem for people running big news >: spools. >OS/2 has a nice system-call, which allows to get more than one >directory-entry at one time. This speeds up directory-scanning a lot. Linux already has this in 1.3 kernels: the system call is getdents (see fs/readdir.c) and ext2 supports it (see fs/ext2/dir.c). --Malcolm -- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Oxford University Computing Services "Widget. It's got a widget. A lovely widget. A widget it has got." --Jack Dee