On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:43 -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
> This case will deliver a new filesystem version, which adds support for
> type information stored in directory entries. This is for compatability
> with other operating systems (eg, MacOS) which return this information
> in their stat structure.
By any chance, is this the BSD feature which allows for faster
filesystem tree-walks by optionally returning type information
(directory vs non-directory vs. unsure) to directory readers in a new
"d_type" field in struct dirent, allowing them to *skip* potentially
expensive stat() operations on entries known to not be directories?
IMHO the larger feature is worth importing if we can figure out how to
make a compatible API/ABI change for it.
- Bill
