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From: mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk (Malcolm Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem
Date: 19 Mar 1996 13:53:31 GMT
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In article <4id98m$3t@mk.zebra.fh-weingarten.de>,
Markus Kaufmann <kaufmann@zebra.fh-weingarten.de> wrote:
>Mats Andtbacka (mandtbac@news.abo.fi) wrote:
>
>:  - a *really, really fast* filesystem for people running big news
>:  spools. 
>OS/2 has a nice system-call, which allows to get more than one
>directory-entry at one time. This speeds up directory-scanning a lot.

Linux already has this in 1.3 kernels: the system call is getdents
(see fs/readdir.c) and ext2 supports it (see fs/ext2/dir.c).

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
Oxford University Computing Services
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