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 i
On Dec 16 21:18, Christian Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 160 drwxrwx---+ 1 corinna vinschen 163840 Dec 16 10:13 bin
>> 0 drwxrwx---+ 1 corinna vinschen0 Apr 15 2008 cygdrive
>> 0 drwxrwx---+ 1 corinna vinschen0 Apr 30 2008 dev
>> 12 drwxrwx---+ 1 co
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According to Christian Franke on 12/16/2008 1:18 PM:
>
> On my XP SP2, st_size is always 0, even for large and fragmented
> directories.
Likewise for all the machines I have access to. Maybe it is just Vista
that added directory size tracking?
>>
>
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
[...]
Also, coreutils currently only sorts large directories, but cygwin reports
directory st_size as 0 regardless of directory size, so there is no way to
identify large directories up front.
Not quite. Did you call `ls -s' on cygwin's / directory lately? A snipp
On Dec 16 06:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/16/2008 2:20 AM:
> >> unfortunately, is that the Linux patch to use d_type and inode
> >> sorting to speed up rm from quadratic to linear on directories with a
> >> large number of files did not apply to cygwin because of diff
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According to Corinna Vinschen on 12/16/2008 2:20 AM:
>> This release also takes advantage of
>> the new d_type support to speed up several utilities; one notable
>> exception, unfortunately, is that the Linux patch to use d_type and inode
>> sorting
Hi Eric,
On Dec 15 20:49, Eric Blake wrote:
> For those people testing cygwin 1.7, a new release of coreutils, 7.0-1,
> has been uploaded,
> [...]
> This release also takes advantage of
> the new d_type support to speed up several utilities; one notable
> exception, unfortunately, is that the Li
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For those people testing cygwin 1.7, a new release of coreutils, 7.0-1,
has been uploaded, replacing 6.12-2 as current. 6.10-2 remains current
for cygwin 1.5 users.
NEWS:
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This is a new upstream release. It is designated as a beta release
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