Re: Drastic Slowdown of 'fseek()' Calls From 2.4 to 2.6 -- VMM Change?

[Hans Reiser]

Nick Piggin wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the real problem is that glibc is doing filesystem
>> optimizations without making them conditional on the filesystem type.
>
>
> I'm not sure that it should even be conditional on the filesystem type...
> To me it seems silly to even bother doing it, although I guess there
> is another level of buffering involved which might mean it makes more
> sense.
>
I was not saying that filesystem optimizations should be done in glibc
rather than in the kernel, I was merely forgoing judgement on that
point.   Actually, I rather doubt that they should be in glibc, but
maybe someday someone will come up with some legit example of where it
belongs in glibc.  I cannot think of one myself though.
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