Re: Adding readdir entries to the name cache ...

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: [major snippage, much useful to think about here ...] However, ls seems to call lstat in the same order that the files are in the directory, and a normal clock approach to directories would yield exactly the same result. Further, in the cases that

Re: Adding readdir entries to the name cache ...

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: Richard Sharpe wrote: Note that you can get another 8-12% by making negative cache entries, since DOS/Windows clients tend to search the full path each time, even though they have already received a successful response in the past (i.e. there is no

Re: Adding readdir entries to the name cache ...

2002-07-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:29 AM +0930 7/6/02, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hmmm, I think that the major part of the problem there was that, for what ever reason, Barry Feigenbaum of IBM, declined to add a Change Working Directory or Set Working Diretory command to the SMB protocol. Thus, at least for the SMB protocol, and

Re: Adding readdir entries to the name cache ...

2002-07-05 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 6:29 AM +0930 7/6/02, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hmmm, I think that the major part of the problem there was that, for what ever reason, Barry Feigenbaum of IBM, declined to add a Change Working Directory or Set Working Diretory command to the SMB

Re: Adding readdir entries to the name cache ...

2002-07-05 Thread Terry Lambert
Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: [major snippage, much useful to think about here ...] However, ls seems to call lstat in the same order that the files are in the directory, and a normal clock approach to directories would yield exactly the same result.