>> 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. > >Pick your poison. O(N) creation or O(N) initial traversal.
the low-hanging fruit is a "view" as a window onto a static snapshot. why not just create the view instantly and then filter all operations which scan a directory from that point onwards, try growing it incrementally upon demand? -a _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss