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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:45:13 -0600
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Subject: Re: 3x slower file reading oddity
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On Jun 17, 2002  17:36 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> You can probably lessen the seek-rate by accessing the files in the correct
> order.  Read all the files from a directory before descending into any of
> its subdirectories.  Can find(1) do that?  You should be able to pretty
> much achieve disk bandwidth this way - it depends on how bad the inter-
> and intra-file fragmentation has become.

Just FYI - "find -depth" will do that, from find(1):
	-depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
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