From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@nl.linux.org>
Cc: acahalan@cs.uml.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Ext2 Directory Index - File Structure
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:40:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010414004033.A2290@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010413205602Z92226-31792+12@humbolt.nl.linux.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010413205602Z92226-31792+12@humbolt.nl.linux.org>; from phillips@nl.linux.org on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 10:55:54PM +0200
Daniel Phillips wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > ls already can't handle the directories I'm working with on a regular
> > > basis. It's broken and needs to be fixed. A merge sort using log n
> > > temporary files is not hard to write.
> >
> > ls -U | sort
> >
> > should do the trick.
>
> Um, yep. Now ls should do that itself instead of giving up with an error.
Sorting 1 million 30-character strings does not require temporary files
on a machine with > 35 MB anyway, and that can be virtual, so if anyone
cares about ls sorting huge directories I suggest improving the
in-memory sort.
cheers,
-- Jamie
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2001-04-13 20:55 Daniel Phillips
2001-04-13 22:40 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
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2001-04-15 16:23 Daniel Phillips
2001-04-11 13:07 Daniel Phillips
2001-04-11 16:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-11 13:00 Daniel Phillips
2001-04-09 10:40 Daniel Phillips
2001-04-09 18:35 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-04-10 9:36 ` Albert D. Cahalan
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