Re: large directory handling speed

Alexander V. Lukyanov (lav@yars.free.net)
Tue, 25 May 1999 17:04:33 +0400


On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:43:19PM +0400, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote:
> I have noticed that ext2 handles large directory much better than vfat
> or iso9660.
...
> I know that vfat is not of very smart design, but windows handled the
> directory better.

Replying to myself: it seems that windows just get file information along
with its name, thus no extra name lookup. When I used unix-like ls program,
I could not wait until it finishes :)

So, would it be possible to cache file information somehow in vfat directory
reading routine - create dentry or something?

Alexander.

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