Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

[Paulo Marques]

Mark Lord wrote:
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> ..
> > The following ld_preload can help in some cases.  Mutt has this hack
> > encoded in for maildir directories, which helps.
> ..
>
> Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too
> when used with "rm -r" on largish directories.

From looking at the code, I think I've found at least one bug in opendir:
...
> 			dnew = realloc(dirstruct->dp, 
> 				       dirstruct->max * sizeof(struct dir_s));
...

Shouldn't this be: "...*sizeof(struct dirent_s));"?

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