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From: Ville Herva <vherva@niksula.hut.fi>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: Shrinking ext3 directories
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On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 04:08:33PM +0100, you [Stephen C. Tweedie] wrote:
> 
> That was Ted's microoptimisation to start directory lookups at the
> point where we last looked in the directory. 

That exactly. (Micro maybe in size, but I gather the sped up lookups quite a
bit in some cases?)

> It's in ext3 already these days,

So I thought, but not in ext2?

> and it would definitely help for the mass-delete case.

Yep. Anyway, nice to see the large dir case is being addressed.


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