On 10/10/08 07:28, James Youngman wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/09/08 23:05, James Youngman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:29 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I *think* that James Youngman was being sarcastic.  If I'm wrong, then so
much the better.
I was not being sarcastic.
Excellent, I've reached my quota for being wrong this year!

Anyway... in these days of logical block addressing and bad-block remapping,

That's not the half of it.

how do you actually optimize disk head movement?

Essentially by modifying fts() to pay attention to struct dirent.d_ino
and hoping that the inode number either has some relation to the disk
location, or that the difference between the average and worst case of
stat ordering is small.   For details, see the archives of recent
discussions on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.

This thread?

http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg11327.html

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no
hook beneath it."  -- Thomas Jefferson


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