On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/10/08 07:28, James Youngman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> 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

That's the one.

James.


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