From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:52:30 GMT
Subject: Re: How git affects kernel.org performance
Message-ID: <20070107105230.GA8345@1wt.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20070107102853.GB26849@infradead.org>

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:28:53AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Do you too think it might help (or even solve) the problem on
kernel.org ?

Willy