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Andrew Morton wrote:

> Go into ext2_new_inode, replace the call to find_group_dir with
> find_group_other.  Then untar a kernel tree, unmount the fs,
> remount it and see how long it takes to do a
> 
> 	`find . -type f  xargs cat > /dev/null'
> 
> on that tree.  If your disk is like my disk, you will achieve
> full disk bandwidth.

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the difference between find_group_dir 
and find_group_other, and why aren't we using find_group_other already 
if its so much faster?

Chris

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