On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 19:08, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> There's no incremental index maintenance to do as views would be like
> snapshots, so once a view is computed for one directory it could be
> cached, possibly persistently, so that the next time the readdir doesn't
> have to stat all the files in the directory.
yeah, but doing a full tree walk under the covers in that first readdir
will Suck. I'd rather the view creation be a bit slowerer in order that
the first access to the view would be responsive.
> I like it, but it seems like so just much gravy to me :)
Agreed.
- Bill
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