[ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: coreutils-7.0-1

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 16 20:12, Eric Blake wrote:
> Most readdir() implementations return files either in creation order or
> name order.  But what matters for the optimization done by coreutils is
> inode order - on file systems where increasing inodes represent increasing
> disk positions, then stat'ing files in inode order results in less seek
> time than visiting files in name order.  I guess what needs to happen now
> is actually testing whether NTFS is like ext3 in benefiting from the inode
> sort.

I assume it depends on the meaning of the NTFS file numbers.  Is that
anywhere documented?


Corinna

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