Re: fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

2009-02-12 Thread Ralf Wildenhues
Hi Jim, * Jim Meyering wrote on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:58:24PM CET: > Following up on this thread, > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs/3894 > > Here are the gnulib pieces to make find stop stat'ing > non-directories on reiserfs file systems. Nice speedup! A couple of c

fts: make find *much* faster on dirent.d_type-challenged FS

2009-02-12 Thread Jim Meyering
Following up on this thread, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs/3894 Here are the gnulib pieces to make find stop stat'ing non-directories on reiserfs file systems. This makes find *sooo* much faster on some trees (like my 1.7M-inode maildir one) that it's like night and day.