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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
