Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a patch that makes it so tools using fts, > like chmod, chown, chgrp, chcon, du, and find are no > longer susceptible to an O(n^2) performance penalty when > processing very large directory-entry counts (as in millions). > I first noticed the problem on ext3 and ext4 file systems, > but the patch also improves performance on reiserfs and xfs, > but not on tmpfs.
I've pushed that with a fix for the comparison function problem that Ralf spotted: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commitdiff;h=2f2978ede97205c49d3e568ccffa5a04fb53326b then spotted a typo, and pushed the correction: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=commit;h=1d569ca4e7e6147793e6e6510e5a36a4139b2f31
