On 01/01/2018 17.40, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> The user and sys components of the above are largely linear,
> so the increasing delay is waiting on the device.
My understanding of commit 24412edeaf556a was that "waiting for the
device" is what's claimed to be nonlinear with the patch -- it
Hello,
in commit
rm -r: avoid O(n^2) performance for a directory with very many entries
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=24412edeaf556a
it says that `rm -r`
"now displays linear performance, even when operating on million-entry
directories on ext3 and ext4"
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