From: Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Date: 02/06/01-05:58:06 AM Z
Message-ID: <3A7FE6CE.28FC160@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 14:58:06 +0300 From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] Directory cookie issues Eric Werme USG wrote: > > Hans & mre commiserate: > > I must tell you that ReiserFS is not a friend of seekdir() either. Breaking > > seekdir() is in all seriousness not such a bad thing to do. > > Though I certainly share the opinion that seekdir() is evil. > > At least there's one thing in which we're all in agreement! :-) > > Neil's notion of rewind and count filenames would at least allow > seekdir to work without generating an error. > > While this would work okay with my example of readdir/delete/readdir, > it would fail miserably on readdir/delete/seekdir/readdir. Somehow, > that doesn't bother me at all. (And I wasn't the one that had to > rewrite Tru64's directory code to make the Connectathon telldir test > work!) > > -Ric Werme The performance would be extremely poor for 100,000 entry directories. Hans
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