On 12/5/06, Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:
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> The primary goal (IMHO) of this syscall is to allow the filesystem
> (primarily distributed cluster filesystems, but HFS and NTFS developers
> seem on board with this too) to avoid tens to thousands of stat RPCs in
> very common ls -R, find, etc. kind of operations.

I don't think that ls -R and find are that common cases that they need
introduction of new operations in order to made them faster. On the
other hand may be they are often being used to do microbenchmarks. If
you goal is to make these filesystems look faster on microbenchmarks,
then probably you have the right solution. For normal use, especially
on clusters, I don't see any advantage of doing that.

Thanks,
    Lucho
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