how to increase speed to iterate all file's name in a XFS , about million files.

[hank peng]

2010/9/29 Dave Chinner <david at fromorbit.com>:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 08:28:08AM +0800, hank peng wrote:
>> Hi:
>> I have a XFS file system which contains about million files in it. I
>> want to iterate all file's name using readdir function and I found
>> that a little time-consuming.
>> Anybody to suggest a way to increase its speed?
>
> In what way was it time consuming? IO bound? CPU bound? something
> else?
>
I think it is IO bound, file names information is scattered in whole
partition, right?
> Cheers,
>
> Dave.
> --
> Dave Chinner
> david at fromorbit.com
>



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