Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:59:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:59:04 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:64947 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:58:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 04:58:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: Wojtek Pilorz cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] disk throughput In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Wojtek Pilorz wrote: > Would it be possible and a good idea to add such 'vector' operations to > the Linux kernel? Occam's Razor and all such. Plus portability problems. Besides, you get enough information from getdents() if you really want to play silly games with that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/