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Date:      Wed, 08 Jun 2005 09:50:44 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Subject:   Re: you are in an fs with millions of small files
Message-ID:  <86zmu1l223.fsf@xps.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20050608074613.GA979@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> (Giorgos Keramidas's message of "Wed, 8 Jun 2005 10:46:14 %2B0300")
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> writes:
> Is there a better way to sort a linked list (not necessarily a
> singly-linked list, like the one fts_link is used for).

Don't build a linked list to begin with.  The comparison function is
known at the time the directory entries are read, so it should be a
simple matter to read them into a red-black tree instead of a singly-
linked list.  I'm working on a patch.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no




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