Hi,
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:30:50 +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@kernel.org>
said:
> On 2000-02-29T17:04:32,
> Jan Bobrowski <jb@wizard.ae.krakow.pl> said:
>> If there's enough RAM for directory cache, the directory size is
>> irrelevant.
> It is still a linear search.
No, dcache searches are hashed. The hash tables are sized dynamically
at boot. OK, individual hash buckets are searched linearly but it's a
far cry from doing a linear search over the whole directory.
--Stephen
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