Re: RFT: updatedb "morning after" problem [was: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23]

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > That would just save reading the directories. Not sure
> > it helps that much. Much better would be actually if it didn't stat the 
> > individual files (and force their dentries/inodes in). I bet it does that to 
> > find out if they are directories or not. But in a modern system it could just 
> > check the type in the dirent on file systems that support 
> > that and not do a stat. Then you would get much less dentries/inodes.
>  
> FWIW, find(1) does *not* stat non-directories (and neither would this
> approach).  So it's just dentries for directories and you can't realistically
> skip those.  OK, you could - if you had banned cross-directory rename
> for directories and propagated "dirty since last look" towards root (note
> that it would be a boolean, not a timestamp).  Then we could skip unchanged
> subtrees completely...

Could we help it a little from kernel and set 'dirty since last look'
on directory renames?

I mean, this is not only updatedb. KDE startup is limited by this,
too. It would be nice to have effective 'what change in tree'
operation.
							Pavel
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