Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Date: 2007-01-07 10:29:09
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On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:03:36AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
The problem is that I have no sufficient FS knowledge to argument why it helps here. It was a desperate attempt to fix the problem for us and it definitely worked well.
XFS does rather efficient btree directories, and it does sophisticated readahead for directories. I suspect that's what is helping you there.